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Understanding fat preference and consumption: applications of behavioural sciences to a nutritional problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

David J. Mela
David J. Mela
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Consumer Sciences Department, Institute of Food Research, Reading RG6 6BZ
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Symposium on ‘Basic mechanisms of food preference and liking’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , July 1995 , pp. 453 - 464
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1995

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