Pre-sliced or do it yourself? - Determinants of schoolchildren's acceptance of convenience fruits and vegetables

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 44, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-11

  von Germeten, Jan Paul ^a   Hirsch, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Convenience; Fruit; Intervention studies; Schools; Vegetables

Indexed keywords

SANDFLY FEVER SICILIAN VIRUS;

EID: 84925802941     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2015.03.006     Document Type: Article

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