How Big Tobacco Marketing Made it into Our Lunch Boxes

Any kid who grew up in the 1990s can tell you that Lunchables were a runaway hit. The slices of processed meats and cheeses were fun to cobble together into little sandwiches, and the convenient ...

How Big Tobacco helped design Lunchables—and gave birth to the ultra-processed food industry

R&D from the cigarette business played a surprising role in engineering snack foods for ‘consumer pleasure,’ a new study ...
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UCSF study links tobacco industry to development of ultra-processed foods

A study from University of California, San Francisco released this week found Big Tobacco played a part in designing food ...

How big tobacco helped shape the design of ultra-processed foods

A new UC San Francisco study reveals how Philip Morris Companies Inc. used cigarette research, flavor engineering, and ...
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Consumer Reports 'applauds' Kraft Heinz for removing Lunchables from school lunch program

Consumer Reports said it "applauds" Kraft Heinz for removing Lunchables from the National School Lunch Program and is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to adopt stricter standards for ...
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Kraft Heinz stops serving controversial Lunchables meals designed for schools: Here’s why

(AP) – Food and beverage manufacturer Kraft Heinz said Tuesday that it no longer is serving the Lunchables meals it created for U.S. schools. The company introduced the two packaged meals — one ...

Big tobacco uses cigarette playbook to help sell ultra-processed foods, journal reveals

New issue of the American Journal of Public Health focuses on parallels between marketing for cigarettes and UPFs ...