Flavor Microencapsulation for Taste Masking in Medicated Chewing Gums—Recent Trends, Challenges, and Future Perspectives

Chewing gum, being a pleasant formulation, requires effective taste-masking techniques, such as encapsulation methods along with an amalgamation of flavors and sweeteners. Taste-masked medicated chewing gum offers palatable way administering drugs dietary supplements to children old-aged people. The concept development provides sustained modified release actives through various microencapsulation, cyclodextrin-complexation, buffering agents, ion exchange resin, solid dispersions, effervescent etc. taste, solubility, stability the active ingredient are key parameters be kept in mind, while formulating gum. Flavor microencapsulation has been used crucial technology research food industry control sensory performance demonstrated by hefty number patents over years. This manuscript insight into conventional novel techniques employed developing gums. Additionally, concepts flavor its applications, polymers, have discussed.