Health motivation and product design determine consumers visual attention to nutrition information on food products

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1099-1106

  Visschers, Vivianne Hm ^a   Hess, Rebecca ^a   Siegrist, Michael ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Health motivation; Nutrition information; Package design; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CEREAL; CLASSIFICATION; EDUCATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD PREFERENCE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TASTE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CEREALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD LABELING; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD PREFERENCES; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES; PERCEPTION; TASTE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956193619     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980009993235     Document Type: Article

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