Prospects for insects as food in Switzerland: A tobit regression

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 64, Issue , 2018, Pages 37-46

  Schlup, Yannik ^a   Brunner, Thomas ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Consumer preferences; Edible insects; Entomophagy; Food neophobia; Insects as food; Meat substitutes; Survey; Survey analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032012186     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2017.10.010     Document Type: Article

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