Health-improving lifestyles of organic and functional food consumers

British Food Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 510-526

  Goetzke, Beate Irene ^a   Spiller, Achim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

AIO; Functional food; Health; Lifestyle research; Organic food; Well being; Wellness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896267525     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BFJ-03-2012-0073     Document Type: Article

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