Understanding how consumers categorise nutritional labels: A consumer derived typology for front-of-pack nutrition labelling

Appetite

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 806-817

  Hodgkins, Charo ^a   Barnett, Julie ^b   Wasowicz Kirylo, Grazyna ^c   Stysko Kunkowska, Malgorzata ^c   Gulcan, Yaprak ^d   Kustepeli, Yesim ^d   Akgungor, Sedef ^d   Chryssochoidis, George ^e,h   Fernández Celemin, Laura ^f   Storcksdieck Genannt Bonsmann, Stefan ^f   Gibbs, Michelle ^g   Raats, Monique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^f European Food Information Council ^*  (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumer categorisation; Directive; Directiveness; Front of pack labelling; Labelling typology; Multiple Scalogram Analysis; Multiple Sort Procedure; Non directive; Nutrition labelling; Semi directive

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOOD PACKAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCALOGRAM ANALYSIS; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; DECISION MAKING; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD LABELING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITIVE VALUE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868115153     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: 10958304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2012.08.014     Document Type: Article

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