Some like it healthy: Can socio-demographic characteristics serve as predictors for a healthy food choice?

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 46, Issue , 2015, Pages 103-112

  Contini, Caterina ^a   Casini, Leonardo ^a   Stefan, Violeta ^b   Romano, Caterina ^a   Juhl, Hans Jørn ^b   Lähteenmäki, Liisa ^b   Scozzafava, Gabriele ^a   Grunert, Klaus G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Denmark; Extra virgin olive oil; Food choice; Health claims; Italy; Latent class clustering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938092911     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2015.07.009     Document Type: Article

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