Opportunities and constraints in the functional food market

Nutrition & Food Science

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 213-218

  Jennifer, Gray ^a   Gillian, Armstrong ^a   Heather, Farley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food products; Limit analysis; Marketing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992997644     PISSN: 00346659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00346650310499730     Document Type: Article

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