Consumer attitudes in the election of functional foods;La actitud del consumidor en la elección de alimentos funcionales

Spanish Journal of Marketing - ESIC

Volumn 21, Issue , 2017, Pages 65-79

  Kuster Boluda I ^a   Vidal Capilla, I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Business Analyst at Hudson Ethics Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Consumption of functional foods; Gender differences; Healthy lifestyle

Indexed keywords

EID: 85064901825     PISSN: 24449695     EISSN: 24449709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sjme.2017.05.002     Document Type: Article

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