The influence of health claims and nutritional composition on consumers' yoghurt preferences

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 43, Issue , 2015, Pages 26-33

  Miklavec, Krista ^a   Pravst, Igor ^a   Grunert, Klaus G ^b   Klopčič, Marija ^c   Pohar, Jure ^c  

^a Nutrition Institute   (Slovenia)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Biotin; Cluster analysis; Conjoint analysis; Health claims; Probiotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923310994     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2015.02.006     Document Type: Article

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