The effect of flavour on acceptability of antacid tablets.
One hundred healthy volunteers recorded their subjective impressions of taste, mouth feel, after-taste and preference, after receiving in turn two tablets of each of four commonly-used antacids. The subjects remained unaware of the appearance of name of the products. The orange flavoured tablets, Asilone Orange, were shown to have a more acceptable taste, mouth feel and after-taste than three other commonly used antacids, Gaviscon, Altacite Plus, and Aluminium Hydroxide B.P., and these differences were highly significant (P less than 0.0001). Furthermore, 93% of cases expressed a willingness to take the orange flavoured tablets again, on a long term basis if necessary.
D000328:Adult; D000863:Antacids / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D005260:Female; D005421:Flavoring Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010349:Patient Compliance; D013607:Tablets; D013649:Taste
D000863:Antacids; D005421:Flavoring Agents; D013607:Tablets