The wine headache: Consumer perceptions of sulfites and willingness to pay for non-sulfited wines

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 81-89

  Costanigro, Marco ^a   Appleby, Christopher ^a   Menke, Stephen D ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Best worst experiments; Discrete choice experiments; Food labels; Labeling; Sulfites; Willingness to pay; Wine marketing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883686310     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2013.08.002     Document Type: Article

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