The color red reduces snack food and soft drink intake

Appetite

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 699-702

  Genschow, Oliver ^a,b   Reutner, Leonie ^a   Wänke, Michaela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color; Drink intake; Food intake; Incidental eating; Red; Snacking; Stop cue

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; AWARENESS; BEVERAGE; COLOR; CONSCIOUSNESS; DRINKING; ENVIRONMENT; FAST FOOD; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; RED; SOFT DRINK;

ADULT; CARBONATED BEVERAGES; COLOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTION;

EID: 84856402459     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: 10958304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2011.12.023     Document Type: Article

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