U.S. Rep. Edward Markey thinks children are seeing too much of Toucan Sam’s Froot Loops, of Twinkies and of other advertised sugary foods while watching television.

The Malden Democrat, who chairs the powerful House Telecommunications and Internet Subcommittee, has written a letter to three members of the Federal Communications Commission, urging them to support “common sense restrictions” on fast-food pitches aimed at youngsters watching children’s shows.

Markey didn’t support an outright ban on junk-food ads.

But he said shows specifically touted as educational, as networks are required by law to broadcast, shouldn’t also be “inundating children with advertisements for fast food, junk food and sugared cereals.”