Socio-demographic and attitudinal determinants of nutrition knowledge of food shoppers in six European countries

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 166-177

  Grunert, Klaus G ^a   Wills, Josephine ^b   Celemín, Laura Fernández ^b   Lähteenmäki, Liisa ^a   Scholderer, Joachim ^a   Storcksdieck genannt Bonsmann, Stefan ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b European Food Information Council ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Cross national differences; Nutrition knowledge; Socio demographics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861715236     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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