Adventures in Nutrition With Captain Carlos was a series of Flash-animated educational shorts on Playhouse Disney (now Disney Junior). In every skit, Carlos would want to eat a healthy food, but his sister Maria pushes junk food upon him. Then, the narrator explains how the junk food can affect your body, and how the healthy food does vice-versa. The skits have not aired since at least 2008, though rumors have spread that they may be found on pre-2009 Playhouse Disney home media releases.
Avaliability
A handful of the skits are avaliable in Spanish on YouTube, as well as a "rough cut" of an episode on Vimeo. Most of them, as well as all finished English versions of the episodes, except for one, are currently lost.
Criticism
Some people have complained that a baked potato was a healthy snack, (In reality, baked potatoes have vitamins C, and B6.) others have said that the show doesn't have the proper facts. One person criticized the removal of Maria's line: "The labels are so pretty, there's a prize inside this one." The line was removed for reasons unknown, but the line was possibly removed to reduce time. Some parents criticized the show altogether because the show would tell that junk food is "bad", and some criticize that it's not helping make better health choices.