Toward Improving Medication Adherence: The Suppression of Bitter Taste in Edible Taste Films

Table 1

Characteristics of the edible film and microsphere content of taste strip formulations.

Formulation	Edible film components	Microsphere content
1	Peppermint-sucralose film base	No microspheres
2	Peppermint-sucralose film base	Empty (blank) microspheres
3	Peppermint-sucralose film base	Quinine + empty microspheres
4	Peppermint-sucralose film base	Quinine + sucralose microspheres

For formulations 2–4, each one-inch square edible taste film contained 3.75 mg of lipid microspheres. Empty microspheres were included in formulations 2 and 3 so that microsphere density was uniformly maintained in formulations 2 through 4.