Food neophobia levels of Lebanese and American college students

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 353-362

  Olabi, Ammar ^a   Najm, Nour El Ouyoun ^a   Baghdadi, Omar Kebbe ^a   Morton, Jessica M ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b Wine Education   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross national; Food neophobia; Food preferences; Novel

Indexed keywords

EID: 64549103761     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2009.01.005     Document Type: Article

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