I’ve been seeing commercials lately for prilosec wildberry and I don’t get it. This seems to be just a flavored-coating over the traditional prilosec pill, which you still swallow whole. So how does one even taste the flavor? Is it just a very brief hint of berry flavor as the pill goes down? That seems ridiculous and all sorts of gimmicky to me. Why not just dip the regular prilosec in some stuff in your own kitchen and be done with it? Would someone even taste it??
Tylenol Cold pills are flavored minty. I taste them going down.
My fish oil capsules are flavored with strawberry, to combat “fish burps.” They’ll make ya burp and when you do it tastes like strawberry instead of fish. Perhaps for some the same happens with Prilosec.
Yeah, this was my thought as well. Doubtful though.
Zantac is mint flavored now. I kinda like it. <shrug>
I haven’t tried this pill, but apparently they used a special coating that immediately dissolves when it goes in your mouth and then releases the flavor for “up to five minutes”.
I bet a lot of people will buy it just out of curiosity.
Coricidin cough tablets were meant to be swallowed whole, but looked and tasted like a skittle. Seemed very dangerous to me if a kid got a hold of them, for basically meaningless benefit(why are you tasting your pills at all, swallow them!)
I agree.
Some medicines have a very disagreeable flavor, unless they are coated. Even if you swallow the pill whole, and quickly, in some cases the flavor lingers. It’s never a pleasant flavor that lingers, either, it’s always something that tastes of sulfur or skunk farts.
Prilosec isn’t one of these. I’ve been taking it religiously for years.
Looks gimmicky, but then I tend not to suck savorously on my pills.
That’s what I was going to say. They are small and smooth and don’t taste like anything.
I vote for gimmick.
Tylenol tried this tactic several years ago in quite a few ways, with “cold burst” mint being the only flavor that survived, and for some reason only in the products that contain cold/flu/sinus ingredients. Tylenol Sinus/Congestion & Pain Daytime is only available with mint flavoring. Maybe it’s to give a bit of a placebo mentholated feeling to users.
I actually kind of liked the vanilla flavor that was once available on a number of their normal and PM products. Reminded me of the Biaxin I once had to take.
I wonder … is “Wildberry” being used by any herbal remedy sellers these days as the latest cure-all?
I’d imagine so, it’s got it all; the word “wild” (Mother Nature and what-not) in it as well as the goodness of berries.
Prilosec tastes fine on itself, IIRC.
Sudafed, the original kind before it was destroyed by tweakers, had some sort of coating. Raspberry maybe? It needed it. If you didn’t get it down quick enough, it had the Multivitamin roughness and nasty taste.
Huh. I don’t think I’ve ever taken Prilosec, so I don’t know how it tastes, or doesn’t taste. I only know that some meds taste pretty nasty.
Stay away from the Prilosec Wilbury. It tastes like Bob Dylan.
I was thinking you were going to say it tasted like Wilford Brimley. :eek:
Not sure which is worse
Back to sulfur and skunk farts, then.
No, but it seems to be a popular flavor for drinks and yogurts. “wild” is the new “xtreme”.
I am not a fan of making medicine candylike. Or candy medicinelike. Too many dead kids. I with there was a way of fundamentally altering medicine so that it was un-candylike, but sadly, the needs of the esophagus are pretty limiting.
So, assuming this is a lame ass marketing gimmick (there’s certainly no medical need I can think of), I Do Not Approve.