TASTE MASKING: A NOVEL APPROACH FOR BETTER PATIENT COMPLIANCE

Abstract

Author(s): Bhati Savita *, Arora Vandana Sethi, Nigarish Mizna

Taste is one of the most important parameters for improve the patient compliance especially in the pediatric and geriatric, bedridden & non-cooperative patients. Masking the bitter taste is potential tools for the development of the dosage form. Several approaches have been developed which not improved the taste of a drug, but also the palatability, formulation and performance of the drug. The present review articles attempts to brief account of many technologies of taste masking and novel evaluation parameter that are used by pharmaceuticals scientists for taste-masking.