Many pharmaceutical dosage forms and palatability technologies trace their origins to the food industry, where flavor, texture, and sensory experience are essential to product acceptance. Drawing from expertise across both food and pharmaceutical applications, our formulation and sensory scientists share practical insights into taste masking, flavor systems, swallowability, sensory characterization, and patient-centric drug product development.
These articles explore how sensory science and formulation strategy can work together to improve the patient experience and support successful drug products.
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To a sensory scientist “flavor” refers to all tastes, aromas, mouthfeels and textures of a product. To a formulator, a flavor is a commercial ingredient that is a blend of volatile chemicals responsible for imparting the aroma of a product. In this post, we’ll focus on the formulator’s view, describing how these commercial “flavors” are created.
By FDA regulation, flavor excipients are divided into four categories. What are the practical differences between these categories and which are appropriate for pharmaceutical formulations? In our latest post, we hope to answer these questions.
By: David Tisi – Senopsys Technical Director “Flavor”, “Taste”, and “Smell” are not the same. To a sensory scientist, the term “flavor” refers to the combination of taste, aroma, mouthfeel and texture. This definition is important as we debunk one of the great myths of taste masking: that taste and smell are the same.
By: David Tisi – Senopsys Technical Director Many Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) are bitter, some extremely so. Often a formulator’s first reaction to taste masking is to add a “flavor” to the formulation to mask the bitterness. This approach to taste making is not usually successful because of differences in the physiology of taste and
By: David Tisi – Senopsys Technical Director What is Flavor? We can trace the origins of many dosage forms and pharmaceutical technologies back to the food industry – and today we consider it a rich source for approaches, tools and methods that pharmaceutical scientists can adapt to develop palatable drug products. How do we define