Are healthy foods really more expensive? It depends on how you measure the price

Cost Realities of Healthy Foods

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-58

  Carlson, Andrea ^a   Frazão, Elizabeth ^a  

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Author keywords

Cost of food; Food prices; Price metric; Price of healthy foods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892360551     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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