An old advert for the product from the 1980s has recently been revived, featuring a child daring a basketball player to not chew on a pastille.
The larger packets containing 100 pastilles are only available in mint, spearmint and mild fresh mint.
The candies are sugar- and calorie-free pastilles with the major ingredient being gum arabic.
The starch and gum also reduces the rate in which the pastille dissolves and moderates the amount of active substances delivered at a time.
In 1927, the company began to market its fruit gums, and its pastilles from 1928, in the now familiar tube packaging.
Various substances, be they of medicinal nature or for flavour can be put into pastille forms.
Ambroxol is available as syrup, tablets, pastilles, dry powder sachets, inhalation solution, drops and ampules as well as effervescent tablets.
Fruit pastilles are a convenient and simple model system for use in part of the study.
