Acceptance of vitamin D-fortified products in Germany - A representative consumer survey

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 43, Issue , 2015, Pages 53-62

  Sandmann, Arne ^a   Brown, Jonathan ^a   Mau, Gunnar ^b,c   Saur, Mirjam ^c   Amling, Michael ^a   Barvencik, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^c OVERDICK GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consumer acceptance; Deficiency; Fortification; Functional food; Nutritional knowledge; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924071171     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2015.02.011     Document Type: Article

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