Eating novel foods: An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour to predict the consumption of an insect-based product

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 59, Issue , 2017, Pages 27-34

  Menozzi, Davide ^a   Sogari, Giovanni ^a   Veneziani, Mario ^a   Simoni, Erica ^a   Mora, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Entomophagy; Insect flour; Intention; Novel food; Theory of Planned Behaviour; Young adults

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012297228     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2017.02.001     Document Type: Article

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