Some estimates say the average preschooler sees more than 500 breakfast cereal commercials a year. And characters in those ads carry a lot of clout. "Early Show" Contributor Taryn Winter Brill ...

Food tastes better when cartoons are involved­ at least according to kids, Yale University researchers found in a 2010 study. A new study, however, finds that Tony the Tiger and Lucky the Leprechaun ...

There were some funky and fun cereals back in the 1980s. Unfortunately, these five in particular have vanished forever.

If the food police wanted to really control childhood obesity, then they would just go into every grocery store in America and set fire to the cereal isle. But, we know that the sugar-coated cereal ...

At the “Bad Cereal & Cartoons” event at Best Video Saturday morning, the Looney Tunes characters getting into television mischief might have seemed to be for the kids’ benefit. There were certainly ...

Lucky Charms. Froot Loops. Cocoa Pebbles. A ConAgra frozen dinner with corn dog and fries. McDonald’s Happy Meals. These foods might make a nutritionist cringe, but all of them have been identified by ...

The Saturday morning cartoon exhibition celebrates what used to be an important ritual for kids taking in cartoons like Scooby-Doo, says programmer Kier-La Janisse. 'We would just sit in front of the ...