What determines ingredient awareness of consumers? A study on ten functional food ingredients

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 32, Issue PC, 2014, Pages 330-339

  Bornkessel, Sabine ^a,b   Bröring, Stefanie ^a,b   Omta, S W F ^b   van Trijp, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consumer awareness; Functional food ingredients; Health motivation; Information strategies; Ingredient awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887723751     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2013.09.007     Document Type: Article

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