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Modelling food choice

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Measurement of Food Preferences

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He would definitely have to acquire better eating habits. Learning to cook vegetables would be a good place to start. It was more of developing the habit than anything else, if he could just get into the habit of it, of buying carrots and turnips and cabbage etcetera. (James Kelman, A Disaffection, 1989, pp. 267–8.)

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  1. Head of Department of Consumer Sciences, AFRC Institute of Food Research, Reading, UK

    H. J. H. MacFie

  2. MMR Product and Concept Research, The Lord Zuckerman Research Centre, Reading, UK

    D. M. H. Thomson

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Shepherd, R., Sparks, P. (1994). Modelling food choice. In: MacFie, H.J.H., Thomson, D.M.H. (eds) Measurement of Food Preferences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2171-6_8

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