Functional foods or functionally marketed foods? A critique of, and alternatives to, the category of 'functional foods'

Scrinis, Gyorgy

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Functional foods or functionally marketed foods? A critique of, and alternatives to, the category of 'functional foods'

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Scrinis, Gyorgy·2008·Public Health Nutrition

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Authors: Scrinis, G.
Affiliations: RMIT University (AU)
Corresponding author: Scrinis, Gyorgy
ORCID: Scrinis, Gyorgy
Venue: Public Health Nutrition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published: 2008-02-28
Volume: 11
Issue: 5
Pages: 541-545
ISSN: 1368-9800 (ISSN-L)
1475-2727
DOI: 10.1017/s1368980008001869
OpenAlex: W2094905257
Cited by: 67
References: 19
Citations by year: 2025: 2 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 5
FWCI: 4.64
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
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Licence: www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified)
Locations: Public Health Nutrition (publishedVersion)
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Topics: Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Nutrition, Health, and Society Studies
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Industry and Aquatic Biology
Keywords: functional foods, food classification, food marketing, health claims
MeSH terms: Commerce, Food Handling, Food Technology, Humans, Terminology as Topic, Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Food, Organic

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