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Personally, I think this is a great idea for people who have children that will not eat fruits or vegetables. I see this sort of along the same lines as sneaking pureed vegetables into a kid's food.

I'm sure that everyone hopes that their child will grow up and love fruits and veggies, but the reality is that many of them don't. And if you can get them to eat those by making them seem cool, then go for it.

Alot of my coworkers are trying to eat better, but they are all on budgets and their kids hate the food that they buy (ex: apples for snacks instead of cheese nips). So instead of buying hte healthy stuff, they usually end up choosing whatever the kids will it. If they can get the kids to learn to eat those things, they in turn are able to become healthier too.

To demonstrate a little further, my little step-sister goes to a preschool where ever other kid eats Disney-brand gummy fruit snacks or cartoon animal crackers every day. She gets upset because she has to eat the "boring" fruits that are packed in her lunch every day. I really think that having fun characters on the package will make kids thing that eating these foods is cool after all.

But of course if you're lucky enough to have a kid who loves going to the farmer's market anyway, there's really no point in buying the Disney stuff.