Consumers’ exposure to nutrition and health claims on pre-packed foods: Use of sales weighting for assessing the food supply in Slovenia

Nutrients

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 9353-9368

  Pravst, Igor ^a   Kušar, Anita ^a  

^a Nutrition Institute   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Food labeling; Food supply; Health claims; Nutrition claims; Nutrition declaration

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; VEGETABLE OIL; YOGHURT;

ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CEREAL; CONSUMER; FOOD FREEZING; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD QUALITY; HUMAN; MARKETING; MILK; SAMPLING; SLOVENIA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); URBAN AREA; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOOD PREFERENCE; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FOOD LABELING; FOOD PREFERENCES; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; NUTRITIVE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SLOVENIA;

EID: 84947104843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu7115474     Document Type: Article

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