Palatable composition containing oil or oil-like materials
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsKenneth G. Berling, Thomas G. Crosby
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Abstract
Pleasant-tasting, non-greasy, edible compositions, preferably in liquid form, comprising edible oil or oil-like materials, a high potency, lipid soluble sweetener, such as saccharin, and a lipid soluble flavorant, are disclosed. These compositions are particularly useful as an oral dosage form for vitamins or pharmaceutical materials; in such embodiments the edible oil-like material may consist, in whole or in part, of an oily pharmaceutical agent, such as polyol fatty acid esters having at least four fatty acid ester groups, each fatty acid having from about 8 to about 22 carbon atoms.
Claims11
A liquid pharmaceutical composition in oral dosage from comprising from about 25% to about 99.9% of an edible oil or oil-like pharmaceutical agent selected from polyol fatty acid esters having at least 4 fatty acid ester groups, such fatty acid having from about 8 to about 22 carbon atoms;
- made more palatable by incorporating in said pharmaceutical composition from about 0.001% to about 5% of a highly potent, lipid soluble sweetener, and from about 0.1% to about 5% of a lipid soluble flavorant.
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