Nutraceutical olive oil: Does it make the difference?

Nutrition and Food Science

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 586-600

  Casini, Leonardo ^a   Contini, Caterina ^a   Marinelli, Nicola ^a   Romano, Caterina ^a   Scozzafava, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Health claims; Italy; Latent class analysis; Olive oil

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919461264     PISSN: 00346659     EISSN: 17586917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/NFS-09-2013-0102     Document Type: Article

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