[Medication] How come we can eat hard foods like cookies, vegetables etc with no issue swallowing, but swallowing a pill is genuinely difficult for most of us?

Question

Im currently taking vitamin extras, and i’ve noticed that swallowing the tablet itself takes me a couple of seconds of “mental preparation” before commiting to it, yet any other hard item can be swallowed with easy and no thought to it.

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Answer 1

I heard that (not a pharmacist here I can be wrong) pills are deliberately made to be bitter and painted in unappealing white or especially blue so that babies and small children won’t try to swallow them

Them being hard to swallow and even harder to chew could have something to do with this. Not certain.