Benefit beliefs, attitudes and behaviour towards fresh vegetable consumption in Poland and Belgium

Acta Alimentaria

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-16

  Verbeke, W ^a   Pieniak, Z ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Benefit beliefs; Consumer; Fresh vegetables; Theory of Planned Behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746051354     PISSN: 01393006     EISSN: 15882535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/AAlim.35.2006.1.2     Document Type: Article

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