Swedish consumers' cognitive approaches to nutrition claims health claims

Food and Nutrition Research

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Svederberg, Eva ^a   Wendin, Karin ^b,c  

^a KRISTIANSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SIK THE SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cognitive segmentation; Food labels; Health claims; Nutrition claims; Qualitative research interviews; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868098460     PISSN: 16546628     EISSN: 1654661X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/fnr.v55i0.5929     Document Type: Article

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