Coconut milk gives you bigger breasts, Chinese drink ad insists
- Packaging and adverts for Coconut Palm product show large-chested women frolicking in skimpy tops, in echo of its 2017 commercials
- Company investigates after ‘tone-deaf’ ads prompt disbelief on Weibo
A popular Chinese coconut milk manufacturer has again come under fire for adverts and packaging which claim that its beverage will make women’s breasts grow bigger.
Adverts for the Coconut Palm coconut milk drink feature several large-chested women dressed in skimpy tops alongside slogans such as “drink one can every day, [your] curves will excite people, whiter and more plump”, “genuine Coconut Palm coconut juice, I drank from small to big” and “drinking more coconut milk every day can make [your] breasts fuller”.
Photos of the women also feature on the drinks’ distinctive black packaging, which was updated for 2019. Television commercials for the company – which made similar claims in adverts two years ago – also showed several large-chested women frolicking on a beach.
But viewers quickly voiced their doubts over whether coconut milk actually has any breast-enlarging properties.
“When I first saw the advert, I thought some netizen had just Photoshopped it. It’s only now that I realised it was actually true and not someone joking around,” read one comment on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter.
Many Weibo users also expressed disappointment that a well-established brand would resort to such gimmicky marketing. “The old brand has been around for so many years, and still needs to do this!” one person wrote.
