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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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: Jeff Worthington – Senopsys President and Founder Many drug actives are bitter or have other aversive attributes that require effective taste masking. Senopsys penned an article for Contract Pharma that describes the framework for developing palatable drug products advanced by the AAPS Pediatric Formulations Task Force. The framework is a decision-tree that identifies the