Health claims: Consumers' matters

Journal of Functional Foods

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 222-228

  Pothoulaki, Maria ^a   Chryssochoidis, George ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Health claims; Literature review; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

EID: 64349094817     PISSN: 17564646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jff.2009.01.012     Document Type: Article

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