Functional food choices: Impacts of trust and health control beliefs on Canadian consumers' choices of canola oil

Food Policy

Volumn 52, Issue , 2015, Pages 92-98

  Ding, Yulian ^a   Veeman, Michele M ^b   Adamowicz, Wiktor L ^b  

^a SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Functional food; GM; Health control beliefs; Trust

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; FOOD POLICY; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; MARKETING; PERCEPTION; VEGETABLE OIL;

CANADA;

BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS;

EID: 84955185629     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2014.12.002     Document Type: Article

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