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- Title
A REVIEW: TASTE MASKING TECHNIQUES IN PHARMACEUTICALS.
- Authors
Ahire, S. B.; Bankar, V. H.; Gayakwad, P. D.; Pawar, S. P.
- Abstract
Taste is an important parameter in administering drugs orally and is a critical factor to be considered while formulating orodispersible, melt in mouth, buccal tablet and other formulations which comes in contact with taste buds. Good flavor and texture are found to significantly affect sell of the product. Undesirable taste is one of the important formulation problems encountered with most of the drugs. Taste masking technologies offer a great scope for invention and patents. Several approaches like adding flavors and sweeteners, use of lipoproteins for inhibiting bitterness, numbing of taste buds, coating of drug with inert agents, microencapsulation, multiple emulsion, viscosity modifiers, vesicles and liposomes, prodrug formation, salt formation, formation of inclusion and molecular complexes, solid dispersion system and application of ion exchange resins have been tried by the formulators to mask the unpleasant taste of the bitter drugs. The present review attempts to give a brief account of different technologies of taste masking with respect to dosage form and novel methods of evaluation of taste masking effect.
- Subjects
TASTE; PHARMACEUTICAL research; TASTE buds; BITTERNESS (Taste); VISCOSITY
- Publication
Pharma Science Monitor, 2012, Vol 3, Issue 3, p68
- ISSN
0976-9242
- Publication type
Article