Functional food: A growing trend among the health conscious

Asian Social Science

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 198-208

  Lau, Teck Chai ^a   Chan, Mei Wan ^a   Tan, Hoi Piew ^a   Kwek, Choon Ling ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

^b UCSI UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Consumers; Functional food; Health benefits; Health conscious; Malaysia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872017709     PISSN: 19112017     EISSN: 19112025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5539/ass.v9n1p198     Document Type: Article

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