An Act to Protect Youth from the Health Risks of Sugary Drinks: A factsheet

Fact sheet: food marketing to kids

Food companies market their products to children in a variety of ways. Whether kids see food advertisements on television, in schools, or online, food marketing can impact their food preferences, choices, intake, and purchase requests. Unfortunately, much of the food marketing children are exposed to is for unhealthy food, like sugary drinks and fast food. The U.S. government must act in order to protect children of all ages from unhealthy food and beverage marketing. View the fact sheet to learn more.

Digital Food Marketing to Kids

Policymakers and advocates should work together to promote regulations that protect children from targeted food and beverage marketing

Food news you may have missed: Sep 29, 2023

New York State Bill targets predatory food marketing

New study reveals one way soda and beverage companies market to children

Picture a large public university you may have visited or seen play a sport on television. Can you recall seeing Gatorade merchandise dotting the sidelines? Coca-Cola vending machines across campus? Those products and merchandise are likely there because the university and beverage company signed a pouring rights contract.

Kellogg: Marketing to kids

Demand letter led to Kellogg agreeing to adopt minimum nutrition standards for marketing to children.

City of Davis, CA, takes soda off kids' menus

Parents in Davis, California, should be pleased and proud that the city council has passed an ordinance making milk or water, and not soda, the default beverages for meals intended for young children.

CSPI hits marketing junk food to kids

Stop Undermining Children’s Health Act

A fact sheet displaying CSPI and other organizations efforts to eliminate the tax deductibility of advertising/marketing of unhealthy foods/beverages to children.