Functional foods or functionally marketed foods? a critique of, and alternatives to, the category of 'functional foods'

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 541-545

  Scrinis, Gyorgy ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FUNCTIONAL FOOD; HEALTH FOOD; HEALTH PROMOTION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NOTE; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH;

COMMERCE; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD TECHNOLOGY; HEALTH FOOD; HUMANS; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 42149193086     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980008001869     Document Type: Note

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