Chewable Tablets

Flavoring Agents: Flavors improve taste and overall sensory experience. They make tablets more appealing to chew.

Sweeteners: Both natural and artificial sweeteners help to mask the unpleasant taste of active ingredients.

Colorants: Coloring agents serve as cosmetics in pharmaceutical formulations. For example, they improve the visual appeal of chewable tablets. They also mask inconsistencies in raw material colors and help with product identification.

Disintegrants: Formulators use disintegrants, such as sodium starch glycolate and microcrystalline cellulose, to ensure proper drug release. These excipients make sure tablets break down properly in the digestive system.

Binders: These function as the “glue” that holds the powdered ingredients together. They create cohesive granules that form the tablet. Common binders include cellulose derivatives, starch, and carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC).

Lubricants: To prevent the tablet from sticking to manufacturing equipment, formulators often add lubricants. Common lubricants include talc, magnesium stearate, and ascorbyl palmitate.

Fillers: Formulators use fillers or diluents to add volume when active ingredients do not provide sufficient bulk. This ensures the tablet has adequate size and uniform consistency. Common examples include sucrose, sorbitol, and mannitol.

Chewable tablets are tablet that palatable and may be chewed and ingested with little or no water. Chewable tablets are usually made by wet granulation or direct compression. In order to give chewable tablets a good taste, we use flavorings as needed to ensure that the chewable tablets taste pleasant.