Exploring the Influence of Differentiated Nutrition Information on Consumers’ Mental Models Regarding Foods from Edible Insects: A Means-End Chain Analysis

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 530-551

  Pambo, Kennedy O ^a   Okello, Julius J ^b   Mbeche, Robert M ^a   Kinyuru, John N ^a  

^a JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^b International Potato Center   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Cricket buns; Kenya; laddering; means end chain; mental models; nutrition information

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; INSECT; MODEL; NUTRITION;

DNA DEGRADATION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSECT; KENYA; MARKETING; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PERCEPTION; RANDOM SAMPLE; RURAL POPULATION; ADULT; ANIMAL; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; FEMALE; FOOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

KENYA;

HEXAPODA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMANS; INSECTA; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PERCEPTION;

EID: 85032385859     PISSN: 03670244     EISSN: 15435237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03670244.2017.1392944     Document Type: Article

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