Nutrition promotion messages: The effect of information on consumer sensory expectations, experiences and emotions of vitamin A-biofortified sweet potato

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 52, Issue , 2016, Pages 143-152

  Lagerkvist, Carl Johan ^a   Okello, Julius ^b   Muoki, Penina ^c   Heck, Simon ^b   Prain, Gordon ^d  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b International Potato Center   (Uganda)

^c International Potato Center   (Mozambique)

^d INTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER   (Peru)

Author keywords

Biofortification; Consumer; Emotion; Food; Information; JAR; Kenya; Sensory evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964974592     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2016.04.009     Document Type: Article

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