Study finds junk-food marketing changes the tastes of kids as young as age 4. June 21, 2010— -- For generations now, the grocery store tantrum has marked a rite of passage for parents ...

They had tastes of identical foods wrapped in plain, cartoonless packages for comparison. The study was small --just 40 kids. Still, the authors argue that use of characters to hawk junky food ...

Children prefer the taste of foods branded with images of popular cartoon characters and choose those foods more often than unbranded ones, according to research from Yale’s Rudd Center for Food ...

Lidl has announced that by spring 2020, it will remove all cartoon characters from its own-brand cereal packaging in a bid to help parents deal with “pester power”.. Any adult who has taken a ...

The Cartoon Network just launched its first location-based virtual reality title on Wednesday. “Food Truck Rush” is a multiplayer game based on the BAFTA award-winning and Emmy-nominated ...

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Cartoon characters like the Paddle Pop Lion and Freddo Frog are being used increasingly across media platforms to lure children to unhealthy foods and should be banned, a health organisation has said.

Cartoon and comic strip characters have favorite foods just like real people. Their tastes seem to be rather humble, too -- pizzas, burgers, and sandwiches are often the craving, not filet mignon ...

Well, our annual Food Issue is out. As I point out in the video above (the second episode of our new series, The Cartoon Lounge), it’s delicious and gluten-free. That’s partly because the ...