UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health

Restaurant, food, and beverage companies target Hispanic and Black children and teens with ads almost exclusively for fast food, candy, sugary drinks, and unhealthy snacks. This new report finds that fast food, candy, sugary drinks, and unhealthy snacks represented 86 percent of food ad spending on Black-targeted TV programming, where black consumers comprise the majority of viewers, and 82 percent of ad spending on Spanish-language TV, in 2017.