Consumer response to monochrome Guideline Daily Amount nutrition labels

Food Policy

Volumn 53, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-8

  Boztuğ, Yasemin ^a   Juhl, Hans Jørn ^a,b   Elshiewy, Ossama ^a,b   Jensen, Morten Berg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Front of pack nutrition labelling; GDA; Purchase behaviour; Scanner panel data

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; FOOD POLICY; FOOD PREFERENCE; NUTRITION; PANEL DATA;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84961308149     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.03.002     Document Type: Article

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