Some like it organic, Some like it purple and some like it ancient: Consumer preferences and WTP for value-added attributes in whole grain bread

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 52, Issue , 2016, Pages 244-254

  Teuber, Ramona ^a   Dolgopolova, Irina ^b   Nordström, Jonas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extrinsic information; Hedonic liking; Whole grain bread; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 84967225655     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2016.05.002     Document Type: Article

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