Health Foods and Advertising

The Worst Healthy Food Commercials

Ads for healthy foods range from forgettable to absurd. See how these well-meaning campaigns went very, very wrong
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Why Are Ads for Health Foods So Lame?

When you flip on the TV, it’s rare to see an ad for salad, celery sticks, or smoothies. Why? Simple: The guys who sell vegetables don’t know how to advertise their products. At least not like the guys who make Doritos. To prove it, we rounded up the most memorable healthy food commercials (and a few impostors), and found some good, many mediocre, and a few hilariously bad ads that have run throughout the years.

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