Taste Masking Approaches for Medicines

Undesirable taste is an important problem for patient compliance. Several oral pharmaceuticals and bulking agents have disagreeable and bitter-tasting components. The Bitter taste characteristics found in such systems have been eliminated or minimized by the development of numerous formulations with...

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Published inCurrent drug delivery Vol. 15; no. 2; p. 167
Main Authors Faisal, Waleed, Farag, Fatma, Abdellatif, Ahmed A H, Abbas, Abdelhamid
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United Arab Emirates 14.02.2018
Subjects
Bitter compounds
sweeteners
polymers
coating techniques
taste masking
taste suppressant
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Summary:Undesirable taste is an important problem for patient compliance. Several oral pharmaceuticals and bulking agents have disagreeable and bitter-tasting components. The Bitter taste characteristics found in such systems have been eliminated or minimized by the development of numerous formulations with improved performance and acceptability especially in children and elderly patient. This review is mainly concerned with the bitter-masking techniques published in peer-reviewed journals and will shed light on different methods of masking undesirable taste of the drugs, and their pharmaceutical applications. Hence, nearly no reference will be made to the techniques published as patent applications.
ISSN:1875-5704
DOI:10.2174/1567201814666171013145958