I won't be singing this Tune! (Tunes Cherry Sugar Free Throat Lozenges)

Member Name: eatingpinkzebras

Product:	Tunes Cherry Sugar Free Throat Lozenges
Date:	27/02/09 (279 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: None

Disadvantages: Taste unpleasant, don't do any good!

Due to my recent cold I have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to sample all the ranges of cough, throat and cold-related sweets on the market.

Tunes is probably one of the first names that you think of when someone says 'throat sweets'. They have been around for a long time but I have only recently seen this new version.

This new style of Tunes is packaged in a small, dark red, cardboard box with a flip up lid. The box is quite cute and compact but I think it is probably less convenient for carrying around than a tube of sweets, as it takes up more room and is more likely to come open inside your bag or pocket and spew out its contents. On the plus side, the sweets aren't wrapped, so if you're trying to eat them in a cinema/lecture/library you can do so without annoying everyone around you. I have found, however, that the lack of individual wrapping means that the sweets are liable to stick to each other which is a bit of a pain.

The sweets promise to help you breathe better during a cold. They include the active ingredient Menthol from the mint plant.

The sweets themselves are oval shaped with a dip in the centre. They are shiny, red and see through. In my opinion, they taste quite unpleasant. I normally love the taste of cherries, especially in sweets, and can easily devour a packet of Cherry Drops. These, however, taste very synthetic and bland.

They don't seem to do much good, either. I could hardly taste or feel the menthol and the sweets neither soothed my throat nor helped me to breathe easier through my snuffed up nose. They don't even begin to compare to the excellent Halls Mentho-Lyptus sweets that I have previously reviewed.

I wouldn't recommend these at all. They were a complete waste of money (apart from giving me the chance to write about them on Dooyoo!) and I only had a couple before chucking the rest away.

If you do want to buy some, you can pick up a 37 gram pack for 45 pence from most supermarkets or pharmacies. The pack contains around 10 sweets.

Be aware that excessive consumption can cause laxative effects. It's also worth stating that in 100 grams of these sweets there is 240 calories, no fat and an entire day's recommended allowance of Vitamin C due to the inclusion of real fruit juice. But I wouldn't recommend eating 100 grams of these just to get some Vitamin C - go buy some orange juice instead!

Summary: Don't waste your hard earned 45p!