They taste nice (Halls Soothers Throat Tablets)

Member Name: juleshobs

Product:	Halls Soothers Throat Tablets
Date:	19/11/07 (182 review reads)
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Advantages: do help ease a tickle in your throat

Disadvantages: none really

Now from time to time we all at some point suffer with a sore throat and have our own ways of dealing with this from gargling with TCP to sucking on one of the many throat sweets that are on the market. Personally I usually avoid the TCP and go for Soothers.

Why Soothers, well I don’t like lockets, simple as that and needed an alternative that was not cherry flavoured as not a big fan of anything cherry flavoured either. I came across soothers a couple of years ago in my local news agent and noticed that they came in some nice flavours (there is a cherry one) namely peach and strawberry which I still buy today. Today I am just looking at the strawberry flavoured ones.

OK as there is no image here a bit about the packet, now there has been some redesign to the packaging recently, will since I last bought them, no longer is the packet just a white background with a picture of the fruit that it is flavoured with on the end, the strawberry pack is now mainly red in colour, still with a picture of a strawberry on and states that my soothers are made with real strawberry juice, we shall see later. Also on the pack is a list of ingredients and a warning that this may contain nuts along with nutritional info – can’t believe there is actually any nutritional value in these at all, and a sell by date, my pack expires in February 2009 so quite a good shelf life here.
Opening the packet is straight forward and can be achieved without too much difficulty and inside there are 10 oval shaped sweets each in their own individual wrapper, the typical lozenge shape so nothing unusual here.

The individual wrappers on the lozenges are coated paper and are not sealed and it is very easy to manoeuvre a lozenge out of the wrapper and can even be done one handed if the need arises.

Now for the taste, popping the lozenge into my mouth the first thing I notice is the medicated ingredient, you know the one, the one that tastes a bit like cough medicine but this has an underlying flavour of strawberry, not too overpowering but quite subtle at first, wait a mo whilst I suck for a bit longer, more strawberry flavour coming through now and I am resisting the temptation to crunch on my sweet as I also noticed on the outside wrapping the promise of a ‘soothing and refreshing’ liquid centre, oops temptation has got the better of me…….. very nice and surprising, real strawberry flavour with nothing artificial about the liquid centre at all, this must be where the real strawberry juice was used and you can so tell this is the case. Does it soothe and refresh, well a bit as lets face it there is only so much liquid a small sweet can hold so in context with its size yes.

Now I can’t see any warning on the pack as to how many of these you can have in one day but the writing is quite small, but in the past I have gone through two packs a day without incident and can’t imagine that unless you throat is extremely bad you could get through any more than that anyway – see a doctor if it is.

Price – the all important bit, anywhere between 45p to 70p and this really does depend on where you buy them from either supermarkets or local shops, each have their own price scale though I am quite lucky in that my local newsagent who is 3 minutes away – handy when you are not well, is at the cheaper end of the scale.

Here’s hoping you all stay well and have no need for these.

Summary: I nice gentle relief for a sore throat