Factors affecting Italian consumer attitudes toward functional foods

AgBioForum

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-32

  Annunziata, Azzurra ^a   Vecchio, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Factor analysis; Functional foods; Italian consumers

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960662632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1522936X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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