Be Healthy! Be Happy! Immune Health Pro - Cold Remedy Zinc Lozenge Common Cold Relief & Rescue Formula.

These are my fave anti-cold zinc lozenges. They have the right types of zinc in them, and the best sweeteners. Other lozenges often use just plain old sugar. These lozenges use xylitol, honey powder, and stevia, all good stuff. These lozenges taste pretty good. They are about the right size, and they dissolve at about the right rate so they last for quite a while in your mouth. I also think it's good that they have a small amount of selenium in them. And they work. They help to knock back a cold or sore throat.

A good enough Zinc supplement, said to be an effective prophylactic measure against common cold/corona type viruses . Used as directed these lozenges are dissolved in the mouth and coat the back of the throat and taste alright. Any claims of efficacy are, to the best of my knowledge, unsubstantiated by science and anecdotal but what the heck worth a try for the money.

Economic in price, a great deal in terms of a zinc source.

Good formulation for those with easily upset stomach from zinc; however pricy for zinc, although it does have selenium also.

Immune system. Taste chalky and leaves bad taste in mouth.Very unhappy with product.

Feels like I am Born all over

Like eating chalk

I won't pretend to be an expert on biochemistry or nutrition. However, I do try to do my homework, and I recently found myself engrossed in this [...] and other articles about Zn vs. The Common Cold. This article at NIH presented the best information I have found.As a non-expert without unlimited free time, I am simply trusting some of what the authors say. And now I will lay out a partial distillation of this study that you, my fellows, may trust, ignore, or independently verify as you see fit.First, the authors of this, and some other cited studies, list several compounds which bind zinc (i.e. make it unavailable). These are: citrate, tartrate, glycine, palm kernel or cotton seed oils. I am sure this list is not exhaustive, but it's a start. What this says to me is that supplements and lozenges which contain these compounds will have less available zinc.Another bit which is of interest in regards to Cold treatment is that effectiveness is only shown in high dose studies, which are defined by the authors as daily 75 mg or greater.The authors also make mention of zinc availability from different forms of zinc (as it relates to treatment of Cold; perhaps long term availability differs; again, I am not an expert), with zinc acetate being highest by a good margin.Specific to this product: I have not tried it. I am presently looking for a zinc lozenge worth trying. So I rated this as "okay" based on the fact that it does not appear to contain any deleterious compounds, and that it does contain some zinc acetate (although only a small percentage). These two traits have proved surprisingly hard to find. Although this product appears to be a better candidate than many lozenges on Amazon, I will probably not try it, and here's why: low zinc acetate content and high price. (To reach 75 mg per day one must take 5 lozenges. Therefore this product is a one week supply for $20, for a formulation that is likely to be only about 20% effective. I am going to continue my search.)I hope this proves helpful to some.