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> I received it yesterday and WOW it tastes AWFUL. It's really bad. As weird as it might sound, I prefer that with "medicine", it's also one of the reasons why

• Osmium 8y ago
  > it's also one of the reasons why I "enjoy" drinking chamomile tea: It tastes so bad, it gotta be healthy Each to their own, I really enjoy the taste of chamomile tea :) Agreed that it's a good thing for medicine not to taste 'good' though, especially for medicines that happen to enhance appetite...
• vidarh 8y ago
  This is probably quite common. Cough syrup being a typical example where the the taste seems to be largely down to how they think they can make it taste enough like what people expect cough syrup to taste like, given the long list of completely awful but completely different tasting syrups. It's a pet hate of mine, as it's getting hard to get some of the typical ingredients separately as pills - e.g. guaifenesin (expectorant) used to be commonly available separately in the UK, but is now usually combined with paracatemol (acetaminophen) and phenylephrine hydrochloride if you want it in pill form, sometimes additional things too, like caffeine - it seems like the market basically is split in a "must suffer for this to be real medicine" segment and a "I just want everything possibly related in one pill whether or not any individual one of them will do anything" segment. If you prefer to actually choose specifically what active ingredients you consume, then you're stuck with the mostly foul syrups (I've found one that isn't actively offensive to my tastebuds)