Some days, the snacks were offered without cartoon stickers or other branding ... as much as they are on a wide range of foods that aren't good for kids," she added. Using stickers on fruits ...

CU-Boulder study finds plump cartoon characters drive kids to junk food Children tend to reach for low-nutrition, high-calorie food — and more of it — after seeing cartoon characters that seem ...

And when given a choice, the vast majority of kids pick the food from the cartoon-adorned package as ... except that one of the packages had a sticker of Shrek, Dora the Explorer, or Scooby ...

It’s a universal truth that kids are attracted to cartoons ... nutrient-dense foods more fun and exciting for kids,” Emily told TODAY. She recalled that a Little Mermaid sticker had changed ...

Shrek or a Scooby Doo sticker on the front. Both packages had the same brand of snack, but the children consistently said that the food from packages with cartoons tasted better, according to a ...

If you've got young kids ... other cartoon character on it. But why? Well, one reason may be the kid thinks it tastes better. Some researchers at Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policty ...

Colorful labels and cartoons on packaging might be a good indicator ... The study looked at nearly 6,000 packaged foods to analyze their number of marketing strategies aimed at children and ...

A first-of-its kind study finds that children consume more low-nutrition, high-calorie foods after observing plump cartoon characters. All of the kids perceived egg-shaped or ovoid characters as ...

Leonard, Bridget, Margaret C. Campbell, and Kenneth Manning (2019), “Kids, Caregivers and Cartoons: The Impact of Licensed Characters on Food Choices and Consumption,” Journal of Public Policy & ...

Cornell University researchers recently reported that kids ... food fun for kids – faces out of pieces of fruit, for example. “It’s all the same logic. The novelty of eating the sticker ...

Which? food campaigner Clare Corbett said: "Cartoons are great fun for kids. We definitely don't want to see the end of popular characters like Tony the Tiger and the Honey Monster, but we do want ...