Nutrition knowledge and consumer use of nutritional food labels

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 93-118

  Drichoutis, Andreas C ^a   Lazaridis, Panagiotis ^a   Nayga Jr , Rodolfo M ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Food shopping; Information search; Nutrition knowledge; Nutritional information; Nutritional labels

Indexed keywords

EID: 20544459394     PISSN: 01651587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbi003     Document Type: Article

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