ELI5, why does cough medicine have to taste so bad?

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Hi! I’m currently sick and having to down cough medicine pretty regularly. Is there a reason it tastes so goddamn awful? Have we just not found a way to make it taste good, or do companies just not care enough to try?

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Try Dimetapp or Delsym. Some flavors you cannot effectively mask, like the bitter chemically flavor of energy drinks. And, if medicine tastes too good, it makes it that much easier for people to abuse it.

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