“…Chilean and Mexican regulation limits the use of marketing strategies aimed at attracting children, including licensed characters, brand mascots, movie tie-ins, child figures, contests, as well as premium offers, on products high in energy density, sodium, fat and sugar across all media, including packaging (Ministerio de Salud, 2017; Secretaría de Economía, 2020). Restriction of these marketing strategies to the packages of natural or minimally processed foods low in nutrients associated with NCDs could potentially contribute to increase their consumption among children, leading to an improvement of the quality of their diet (e.g., Dial and Musher-Eizenman, 2020). In addition, this regulatory approach could encourage the food industry to improve the nutritional composition of the products targeted at children, as it has been recently reported in Chile for breakfast cereals (Mediano Stoltze et al, 2019).…”