The Fruit Loops Tucan and the Lucky Charms Leprechaun just got a reprieve. The Government announced that it is backing off of a plan to get rid of cartoons characters on cereal boxes. Government ...

PHILADELPHIA, March 8 (UPI) -- Children ages 4-6 said they enjoyed a cereal more when a popular cartoon character like Shrek was on the box, U.S. researchers found. Doctoral students Matthew Lapierre ...

Mothers forced to buy unhealthy foods for their nagging children. Aug. 16, 2011— -- It's a tried-and-true marketing method: Slap a famous cartoon on food boxes and odds are children will be more ...

Cereal companies know that putting a cartoon character on the box makes it more appealing to kids. Now a new study suggests the child-friendly figures make the cereal taste better, too. Children ages ...

This week in “Sometimes the Internet Is Good and Helpful” news, Kellogg’s apologized for a “racist” cereal box cartoon after the design was called out on Twitter. Writer Saladin Ahmed tweeted images ...