Functional food and organic food are competing rather than supporting concepts in europe

Agriculture (Switzerland)

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 316-324

  Kahl, Johannes ^a   Załęcka, Aneta ^b   Ploeger, Angelika ^a   Bügel, Susanne ^c   Huber, Machteld ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d LOUIS BOLK INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Concept; Consumer; Food; Functional; Organic; Quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877877931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20770472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/agriculture2040316     Document Type: Article

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