Do Consumers' Attitudes Towards Food Technologies and Motives of Food Choice Influence Willingness to Eat Cereal Products Fortified with Fibre?

Polish Journal of Food and Nutrition Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 281-291

  Jezewska Zychowicz, Marzena ^a   Królak, Maria ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

bread; cereal products; consumer; fibre; food technology neophobia scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 84950122170     PISSN: 12300322     EISSN: 20836007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/pjfns-2013-0014     Document Type: Article

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