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Food Choices and Preferences of Schoolchildren

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Jane Thomas
Jane Thomas
Affiliation:
Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, King's College London, Campden Hill Road, LondonW8 7AH
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Workshop on ‘Nutrition and the Schoolchild’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , March 1991 , pp. 49 - 57
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1991

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