Consumer attitudes towards functional foods

Understanding Consumers of Food Products

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 412-427

  Lähteenmaki, Liisa ^a   Lyly, Marika ^a   Urala, Nina ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

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EID: 84903228207     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1533/9781845692506.4.412     Document Type: Chapter

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