Factors Affecting the Extent to which Consumers Incorporate Functional Ingredients into their Diets

Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 375-392

  Cranfield, John ^a   Henson, Spencer ^a   Masakure, Oliver ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Consumers; Consumption; Functional foods; Health status; Nutraceuticals; Poisson regression

Indexed keywords

FOOD CONSUMPTION; HEALTH STATUS; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 79956263781     PISSN: 0021857X     EISSN: 14779552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-9552.2011.00293.x     Document Type: Article

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