Trends in food consumptions: What is happening to generation x?

British Food Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 705-718

  Casini, Leonardo ^a   Contini, Caterina ^a   Romano, Caterina ^a   Scozzafava, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Food habit trends; Food patterns; Generation X; Italy; Latent class clustering Paper type Research paper

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 85006100873     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BFJ-10-2013-0283     Document Type: Article

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