I mean I remember I got H1N1 when I was a kid (I’m 19 years old right now), and the doctor prescribed me this medicine. I know that medicine isn’t supposed to taste good, however this one is the worst of the worst.
I was also prescribed tablets for depression, and the tablets taste gross when is dissolves in my mouth.
Why is it that 99% of medications don’t taste good?
In: Chemistry
I’m no expert but just to give you some perspective, I think the problem lies with what we perceive “consumable”. We think that if we’re to consume something, it should taste good. That’s the case with candies, chocolates and all kinds of other food out there, which have been specifically designed for you to like them and consume them. Because “tasting good” is their only purpose, and that’s how they sell.
On the other hand, drugs have totally different purposes, and “tasting good” is not one of them. They “could” make them taste good, but then they’d be a lot more complicated to develop, and certainly a lot more expensive too.
So, there’s no particular effort to make drugs taste bad. That’s why they could taste literally like anything. On the contrary, there’s a particular effort to make food taste good, because its purpose is to give you pleasure and otherwise you wouldn’t buy it.
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