Dragee

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Candy as a dragee

A dragée [ draˈʒeː ], also dragee , from French , from Latin and Greek tragemata "dessert", is a coated lenticular tablet or sweet .

Executions

  • Dragee as a drug form: a mostly round or oval tablet is coated with sugar ( sugar -coated). The coating serves to cover an unpleasant taste, protects the coated tablet core and the medicinal substance it contains and makes swallowing easier thanks to the smooth surface. Additional layers can be applied over the sugar layer, such as an acid-resistant shellac coating . Such coated tablets only release the active ingredient in the alkaline environment of the intestine, which protects acid-sensitive substances from being broken down by gastric acid .
  • Dragee as a candy: the mostly lenticular candy is coated with sugar or chocolate .

The sugar coatings are very stable against environmental influences such as water or atmospheric oxygen. In this way, substances can be protected that are not stable to water or oxygen.

See also

Web links

Commons : Dragée  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dragee, Dragée, das. Duden , 2018, accessed on September 12, 2018 .