Colourful = healthy? Exploring meal colour variety and its relation to food consumption

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 64, Issue , 2018, Pages 66-71

  König, Laura M ^a   Renner, Britta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color variety; Eating behavior; Food consumption; Food perception; Vegetables; Visual cues

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032224040     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2017.10.011     Document Type: Article

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