Creating User-Friendly Oral Dosage Forms

摘要

Because of the inherently bitter taste of many active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), developers of oral dosage formsusetaste-maskingtechnologiesand/orflavoringexcipients to create products that are well received by patients and consumers. Human taste testing panels are commonly used to evaluate the success of new formulations, however, these suffer fromanumberofpracticalandethicallimitations.Analternative approach that can overcome these challenges and is gaining tractionwithintheindustryistheuseofelectronictongues,which can detect and analyze the chemical components responsible for taste.