Determinants of consumer understanding of health claims

Appetite

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 269-277

  Grunert, Klaus G ^a   Scholderer, Joachim ^a   Rogeaux, Michel ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Centre Daniel Carasso   (France)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Consumer understanding; Functional foods; Health claims

Indexed keywords

YOGHURT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO FUNCTIONAL FOOD; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BAYES THEOREM; COMPREHENSION; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD SAFETY; FUNCTIONAL FOOD; GERMANY; HEALTH FOOD; HUMAN; MALE; NUTRITION EDUCATION; RATING SCALE; RISK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BAYES THEOREM; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FOOD LABELING; FUNCTIONAL FOOD; GERMANY; HEALTH FOOD; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LEGISLATION, FOOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIVE VALUE; YOGURT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551591105     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: 10958304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2011.01.009     Document Type: Article

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