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Organic food products are considered as credence goods. Hence, organic labels are important visual stimuli for consumers to determine how a good was produced. Therefore, this study aims to contribute to the literature by examining the visual attention patterns and preferences of consumers in a choice experiment by measuring their eye movements using eye-tracking technology and comparing the results with the findings from choice-based conjoint analysis (CBCA) and other stated preference methods. For this reason, 73 consumers participated in an experiment in 2017 in Germany. The combination of eye-tracking and CBCA can help to overcome some major limitations of choice experiments. For example, low levels of a attribute's part-worth utility can be caused by the participants low preference regarding that attribute or that he/she just haven't viewed the attribute. Our findings indicate that consumers who …