A taste and a price that's easy to swallow (Asda Ibuprofen)

Member Name: bruffyboy

Product:	Asda Ibuprofen
Date:	30/03/09 (60 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: taste and price

Disadvantages: none

For years I suffered with headaches on a regular basis, and found my mum's paracetomal did nothing for them. Then, one day, a friend gave me a nurofen tablet and the headache just went: result! I bought those for a few years until I got a bit budget conscious and had a look at the ingredients, where I found I could get pretty much the same thing in Asda Ibuprofen.

A pack of these tablets costs around 30p for 16, which is pretty much as cheap as you're going to get Ibuprofen anywhere. I have tried the capsules, caplets and tablets, and will give you a quick run-down on each.

Firstly, let me say that each contains 200mg of ibuprofen, which is the industry standard, and certainly doesn't make them any better of worse than other tablets. Whilst paracetomal tends to have 500mg in each one, I personally find the ibuprofen a more effective pain relief, but that surely just comes down to personal experience.

To me, the big thing that makes these so good is the price and the 'taste'. I favour the tablets. The capsules are the ones that are plastic. At around 90p a pack, you're paying a lot more for that privelage, and I personally hate swallowing the plastic shell (yuk). They're supposedly faster acting, but I can't get over the swallowing thing.

The caplets are the same shape, but are actually chalky tasting (you know what I mean). This makes them dry to swallow and they always leave a strong after-taste in your mouth.

Finally, the tablets. These are round, and coated in a sweet surface which not only takes away the nasty taste but actually makes them quite nice tasting: result!

All in all, I recommend Asda Ibuprofen Tablets, as they're cheaper, more effective, and easier to swallow.

Summary: buy them!