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 ...

Iconic cartoon foods are known for exaggerated visuals and impossible textures, but translating them into real dishes ...

There are quite a few cartoon foods we’re glad aren’t real: spoo, for example, a substance described as “meat jello,” that’s made an appearance on not one, but two cartoons. Other disturbing foods ...

According to a U.S. study, food manufacturers wisely use cartoon characters such as Scooby Doo, Dora the Explorer, and Shrek on their packaging because they know kids like their junk food better than ...

Nutrition professor Marion Nestle says cartoons can spotlight food politics She shares more than 250 of her favorite cartoons in her new book Her goal%3A Have people get active in food politics When ...

The new Cartoon Network Hotel opens at 6 a.m. on Friday (today) next to Dutch Wonderland at 2285 Lincoln Highway East in East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County. The new hotel is more just just a ...

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 ...

A new study finds that when kids see familiar and favorite characters from cartoons or movies on food packaging, they tend to like that food more. That may not seem like such a revelation, but ...