Eat organic – Feel good? The relationship between organic food consumption, health concern and subjective wellbeing

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 63, Issue , 2018, Pages 51-62

  Apaolaza, Vanessa ^a   Hartmann, Patrick ^a   D'Souza, Clare ^b   López, Cristina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health beliefs; Health concern; Label effect; Organic food; Subjective wellbeing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029605372     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2017.07.011     Document Type: Article

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