Zand HerbaLozenge Elderberry Zinc Lozenges for Dry Throats, No Artificial Sweeteners, No Corn Syrup, No Cane Sugar, No Colors, 80 Count

This is the best way to get your Zinc! I've known about the benefits of Zinc to prevent and lessen a cold for some time - but the only product I had used was Cold Eeze - and it was terrible. It tasted terrible, stayed in your mouth for hours and made me sick to my stomach. I couldn't get my husband or kids to take it for anything! I turned to Amazon to see if there was any other options available and found the Zand lozenges. According to my 16 year old son these are "everything"! They taste great and none of us have had any stomach issues while using these. I recently came down with a cold - normally these will take me out for an entire week. As soon as I started feeling sick I started using a lozenge every few hours and by the end of the 2nd day I was starting to feel better and by the end of the 3rd day was almost completely cleared up. We recently bought a bulk order and will be using these the entire winter to help keep the family healthy

I'm a physician and had heard from a virologist that using a zinc lozenge may help to reduce viral replication in the oropharynx, where coronaviruses tend to sit and may then be inhaled to cause respiratory infection (although COVID-19 is ultimately far more than just a respiratory disease). It doesn't just matter if you're exposed to the virus, but also by how much. And delivery method matters. As far as I understand, zinc lozenges are best because then you're slowly coating the throat over a period of minutes, instead of just eating a gummy/pill/powder that goes into the digestive tract and is absorbed systemically. This doesn't mean that zinc can fully prevent COVID-19 and it certainly cannot cure it, but it may theoretically assist in some level of prevention. Preservatives and added ingredients/sugar are also harmful to health. These lozenges are the best of all worlds- tasty, clean/minimal ingredients, lozenge form.This lozenge alone will not prevent or cure COVID-19. Wear a high-quality mask that covers the nose and mouth when you go out (we release thousands of droplets per second just by talking), physically distance 6+ feet even when wearing a mask, avoid touching things in public, wash your hands regularly and use non-toxic hand sanitizer with 60-70%+ alcohol content when soap and water isn't available, and stay home/get tested/seek medical advice if you're sick.Don't exceed ~100% daily value of zinc intake because too much zinc can weaken the immune system. And as I always recommend, especially with any lozenge supplement due to the repetitive sucking action, teach yourself how to do the Heimlich maneuver for others but also how to self-Heimlich.*Please note, this review is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.*

Helps immune system using natural sweetener

These are very hard like very hard. Like don’t try to bite them so I wouldn’t advise for kids! But they are amazing otherwise and tasty and I feel my immunity has improved! But still have to see more how I like them

The family loves when we have a sore throat.

My wife and I both love these - my 3-year-old, not so much! But he's super picky on everything and pretty much just likes anything made of "meat" and "french fries" with his current phase. lol.These taste great and I love that they are made with brown rice sugar as well.I was trying to find Zinc that I could buy using HSA, and apparently, that's a hard thing to do. These, you can buy with HSA, and you get your zinc + elderberry.They do leave me with a little of a scratchy throat, but that's just me - and I always get that with any elderberry product I have ever tried for some reason - SO NOT JUST BECAUSE OF THIS PRODUCT. But just saying, if you're like me, and you get that....this won't be an exception for it. Probably some kind of weird allergy of mine. I still eat them and love them. lol.

we've been using these at the first sign of a sore throat for years with good resultsunfortunately the company has decided to mess with a good thing to reduce costs, and the quality of the product is noticeably worsethe old lozenges were purple (from the elderberry content, no artificial colors). the package noted 1 g of sugar per serving, and they tasted pleasantly of elderberrythe new ones have 2 g of sugar per serving. they are brown (from the brown rice syrup = sugar) and taste of nothing but sugar. no elderberry detectable at allpresumably the more effective and expensive elderberry has been dialed down in favor of doubling the amount of cheap sugar syrupafter many years as happy customers we will be switching to an alternative zinc elderberrly lozenge for the future

These throat drops work great...they are healthy...no ingredients that will constipated you like the name brands...