SynthesisNutrients2022
The Impact on Dietary Outcomes of Celebrities and Influencers in Marketing Unhealthy Foods to Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Synthesis in Nutrients, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Pooled it
- The impact of food marketing via video game live streaming on snack intake in adolescents: a randomised controlled trial.Public health nutrition · 2025Trial
- Nutrition Promotion for Children in Schools: A Content Analysis of Nutrition Marketing in Arizona School Cafeterias.Research square · 2026Article
- Digital Ecosystems, Children, and Adolescents: Technical Report.Pediatrics · 2026Review
- Effects of social media sponsorship disclosure on adolescents' advertising literacy and purchase intention.PloS one · 2026Article
- Beauty and the beast: an experimental study on the effect of Instagram food posts featuring a celebrity vs. without a celebrity on the eating intention of healthy vs. unhealthy food.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Analysing celebrity and influencer marketing of food and beverages to adolescents on Instagram.Public health nutrition · 2025Article
- Youth exposure to unhealthy digital food marketing in relation to race/ethnicity and income adequacy in Canada.BMC nutrition · 2025Article
- Peers are as persuasive as experts in reducing willingness to pay for sugary foods.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
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- Downloading appetite? Investigating the role of parasocial relationship with favorite social media food influencer in followers' disordered eating behaviors.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2024Article
- #junkfluenced: the marketing of unhealthy food and beverages by social media influencers popular with Canadian children on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
- Young people's views about the use of celebrities and social media influencers in gambling marketing.Health promotion international · 2024Article
- Genetic associations with neural reward responsivity to food cues in children.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Differential neural reward reactivity in response to food advertising medium in children.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- #childhoodobesity - A brief literature review of the role of social media in body image shaping and eating patterns among children and adolescents.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Review
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Abstract
Celebrities, including influencers, are commonly used to market products that are high in fat, sugar, and salt (HFSS) to children but the impact on dietary outcomes has been unclear. The primary aim of this study was to systematically review the literature and quantify the impact of celebrities in HFSS marketing on children's dietary outcomes. We searched eight databases and included studies from all countries and languages published from 2009 until August 2021. Participants were defined as under 16 years, exposure was marketing for HFSS products with a celebrity, and the outcomes were dietary preference, purchasing behaviors, and consumption of HFSS products. We were able to conduct a meta-analysis for consumption outcomes. Seven articles met the inclusion criteria, of which three were included in the meta-analysis. Under experimental conditions, the use of celebrities in HFSS marketing compared to non-food marketing was found to significantly increase consumption of the marketed HFSS product by 56.4 kcals (
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