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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why does medicine generally taste bad?

I'm guessing the answer is really simple, but I've missed it. Any answers would be much appreciated.
gpt
Pharmacologists only care that that active ingredient works not that it tastes nice. Compounds that treat a disease are rare and hard to find, it would be madness to discard a compound because it's unpalatable. That said some drug companies do work on additives to drugs  to help balance out the taste to help kids take them. Some times treating patients is often as much about the right drug as it is about getting them to take them!

But in the majority of cases drug companies have no incentive to add more things to the drug to make it tasty. Any extra ingredients will have their own effects on people either through allergies or diabetes (hence no sugar coated tables) limiting their use.