Symposium 2: Nutrition and health claims: Help or hindrance: European consumers and health claims: Attitudes, understanding and purchasing behaviour

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 229-236

  Wills, Josephine M ^a   Storcksdieck Genannt Bonsmann, Stefan ^a   Kolka, Magdalena ^a   Grunert, Klaus G ^b  

^a Tassel House ^*  (Belgium)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Attitude; Consumer behaviour; Health claims; Purchasing; Understanding

Indexed keywords

OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; EUROPE; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; NUTRITION; PURCHASING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPREHENSION; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DIET; FOOD PACKAGING; FUNCTIONAL FOOD; HEALTH; REVIEW; TRUST;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMERCE; COMPREHENSION; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DIET; EUROPE; FOOD LABELING; FUNCTIONAL FOOD; HEALTH; HUMANS; INTENTION; TRUST;

EID: 84860878390     PISSN: 00296651     EISSN: 14752719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0029665112000043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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