Effects of bitten food images in marketing communications.

Marketing communications (e.g., food packages, restaurant menus, coupons, social media posts) often include images of bitten and non-bitten (i.

Contained: why it's better to display some products without a package.

Unlabelled: Across varying marketplace contexts (e.g., grocery stores, restaurants, e-commerce) managers display products with and without packaging, seemingly arbitrarily.

Smiling faces on food packages can increase adults' purchase likelihood for children.

Manufacturers often include smiling faces on food packages, especially those targeted towards children. Prior research suggests that anthropomorphized images in general, and smiling faces in particular, are an effective marketing tool that encourage food choice and consumption among children. However, it is not clear how adult consumers, who often make food purchases for children, respond to smiling faces on packaging when making decisions for a child recipient.

A rapid review of stocking and marketing practices used to sell sugar-sweetened beverages in U.S. food stores.

Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are a primary source of added sugars in the American diet. Habitual SSB consumption is associated with obesity and noncommunicable disease and is one factor contributing to U.S.