Are Gummies Better Than Pills?

1.What Are Gummy And Pill?

What are gummy and pill? You may see them on the supplementary or medical shelf. They are various effect and can fulfill different need. But they are two different types and has totally different feature. You can easily distinguish them by their appearance.

Gummy

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Gummy is a kind of gelatinous candy which contains ingredients like vitamin, mineral and so on. It is mainly used in snack and supplementary products. It is designed to be tasty and pretty. You can find gummy of different shape, color and favor on market. It can be chewed and tasted, thus very popular for those searching for easier taking experience.

Pill

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Pill is the typical feature of most medicine. It has various forms and you can find tablet, capsules, softgels and so on all its group. It has various shape and designed as small as possible to benefit swallowing. Pills have a wider and more authoritative appliance in medical field compared with gummy.

2.Why Use Gummy And Pill?

Why we need gummy and pill in our life. It is of course for the healing need and body need of customers. Though failed in covering all applying field of pill, gummy shares the same applying field with pill in the below place. You can see their use in energy replenishing, weight losing, body caring, sleep aiding and so on.

Energy replenishing

Energy Replenishing Gummy And Pill-Sourced:herbalnitro

There are various energy supplement and you can find gummy or pill which contains mainly vitamin, glucose, Coenzyme Q10 and so on which focus on energy supplementing. For worker, athlete or student, it’s a joy to get their energy back after a series of hard work by this type of product.

Weight losing

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There are weight lose gummy and pills which contain ACV, green tea extract caffeine and so on which promote your metabolism, suppress appetite and burn fat. It can be used as the supporting for one’s loss weight job with the professional instruction of doctor.

Body caring

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Body caring field is the place where gummy and pill adopted most frequently. You must find the various types of vitamin of gummy shape on market and cod liver oil of pill shape. They make the necessary supplement for body and do the irreplaceable job for certain recovering people or group hard to get some essential nutrients.

Sleep aiding

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If you have difficulty in falling sleep, you must know melatonin. They have various types, solid or liquid. And melatonin gummy and pill are the most common features. Both of them can make great efficiency for sleep aiding. The difference is only lies on their taking manner and price.

3.Are Gummies Better Than Pills?

Are gummies better than pills? No! You may heard the word like gummies are better than pills. But it is not true. You may have a better eating experience in taking gummy  for its nice feature and taste avoid trouble in swallowing. But gummy has flaws too. Choose according to need and check the significant points gummy can’t catch up pills.

Sugar adding

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Gummy, to conserve the nice and appealing taste, has many sugar and other artificial products get in. You can get the sweet taste from it but the sweet taste is not all. It may damage you teeth and cause the intestinal burden. Now, some gummy manufacturers use xylitol or starch to make healthier sweet taste.

Restricted material containing

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Gummy is widely used to make vitamin supplement, but its vitamin has lower and restricted content compared with the vitamin pills. Besides, for some contains like mineral, gummy failed to make its relative products for its special structure.

Quicker degrade

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Gummy has shorter shelf life compared with pill. Your bottle of vitamin may degrade and failed to make the supplementing job. Pill has stabler feature and longer shelf life than gummy. The stability saves your energy in worrying about expiration of product.

4.What Are Advantages And Disadvantages Of GummyAnd Pill?

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You have get the conclusion of gummies are not better than pills. But the long lasting existence of this feature in medical field revealed you that it must have advantages like pill does. The two features have their own advantages as well as disadvantages as below.

Gummy

Advantage	Disadvantage
l Appealing and changeable appearance	l Sugar adding
l Great and various taste	l Artificial additives
l Easy and convenient taking	l Potency losing with time going
l Help “vitamin habit” establish	l Low nutrients containing
l Better absorbing of vitamin D	l Restricted nutrition type
	l Shorter shelf life

Pill

Advantage	Disadvantage
l Wider nutrition containing choose	l More hard and complicated taking
l Mineral adding feasible	l Not taste that good
l No sugar containing	l Harder to digest
l Longer shelf life
l Lower manufacturing cost and price

5.What Are The Ingredients Of Gummy And Pill?

It is easy to see the difference of gummy and pill as the two types have totally different feature and taste. Have you ever wondered why they differed so much. One deciding feature is the ingredients. The change of ingredients of them make the two types totally different things.

Gummy

Gelatin

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Gelatin forms the major feature of gummy and makes its chewy taste. Gelatin is usually got from corn, pig or other animals. It can be used to make jelly, mousse cake and so such jelly texture product.

Corn starch

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Corn starch adjusts the thickness of of gummy. It is a natural material getting from the corn and widely used in food like soap, pudding, jelly, candy and so on. You can make your gummy more soft or hard by adjusting its adding.

Sugar

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Your gummy should get sugar added to make it sweat and improve its taste. There are glucose, syrup, citric acid and so on to adjust the taste of pill. It in some way decides the favor of gummy and thus rather important.

Added color

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The gummy without color is digesting and can not arouse customer’s appetite. To make it adorable and conform to the figure of your different gummy, you should mix and add color segment to get the adorable and appealing feature.

Add artificial or natural flavor

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Gummy have different shapes, bear, bunny, strawberry, blueberry, screw and so on. To improve the feeling of eating, you should add extra flavor to make it more tasty or echo to its appearance, especially the one with fruit shape.

Relative nutrition

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What is the effect of your gummy? Vitamin D, vitamin B or vitamin C, which kind of vitamin gummy you produce? The specific nutrition should be added in the gummy to make the relative effect.

Pill

Active ingredients

Active Ingredients-Sourced:bichain

Your pill’s effect is different according to the active ingredients in it. Vitamin, mineral, ibuprofen, acetaminophen, aspirin and so on are active effect which produce the need for customers.

Binder

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Binder obviously plays the binding role. It binds the active ingredients together and do the job of making pill shape. You can find gelatin, corn starch or acacia gum as typical binder.

Filler

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Filler makes the effect for sleek and smooth body of pill. Without it, your pill may have different shape or size which makes customers feel unprofessional and unsafe. Lactose and cellulose are two representative.

Coating

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You may find the difference of pills easily from the outer layer. It is a thin layer of coat which makes the swallowing more easier as it improves appearance and taste of pill. Besides, it also makes pill more stable.

Disintegrants

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After taking pills, you may need the help of some disintegrants to reduce press of your stomach and internal and speed the break down of the pill in your body. It helps the dissolving of pill in our body.

6.What You Should Take, Gummy Or Pill?

You have now a deeper knowing of gummy and pill, so what you should take? Do you have any confuse about its picking? Here are some points you can consider when selecting between this two different types.

Body requirement

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What is the requirements of your body, vitamin, mineral or other medical ingredients? You should choose gummy and pill according to this? The type you choose should have the best attending of the ingredients. This can assure the effect. Besides, you should also consider your allergens in consideration.

Daily life

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Do you have the “vitamin habit”? If not, you can try gummy which helps establish the habit. What about your swallowing? The hard swallowing of pill induce you to choose gummy which have a better taste and can be swallowed easier. You should also take your habit and pace of life into consideration, to get the most convenient type.

Shopping habits

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Gummy and pill have different shelf life. Gummy has shorter one, usually 6 months and may degrade over the period. You prefer big purchase or product hoarding? If you do, you may try the pill as the hoarding and long storing may weaken the efficacy of pill.

7.What Machines Can Be Used ToMake Gummy And Pill?

Both gummy and pill have various shape and size, the high standard of them makes also high standard of their making machine. Do you know what machine can be used to make gummy and pill?

Gummy making machines

Aipak Gummy Manufacturing Line

Gummy making line can make the gummy making process and the machines contained make the process of mixing ingredients, forming gummy, adding starch and vibrating the excess starch. The type of gummy making machine has mainly its difference from automation level and production scale.

You can find automation and semi-automation gummy making machine as well as gummy making machine with big, middle and small scale.

Pill making machine

Pill has a large group of tablet, capsule and so on. And here let’s dive in the two most typical pills: tablet and capsule.

Tablet making machine

Aipak Rotary Tablet Press Machine

Tablet making machine can get its different type from automation level as well as machine design. Here are manual, semi-automatic and fully automatic tablet making machine for you to choose. And you can also choose between single punch or rotary tablet making machine according to the different efficiency.

Capsule making machine

Aipak Automatic Capsule Filling Machine

Capsule making machine, also called as capsule pill filling machine has also different automation level from manual, semi to fully-automatic. And not like the tablet, capsule has different feature of hard capsule and soft gel capsule. Thus you can further classify it from the capsule type of hard gel and soft gel capsule filling machine.

Conclusion

Are gummies better than pills? I believe you must have your own answer. You may also have your choice in later product making. There are further knowledge about pill and gummy, if you want to know more or have any confuse on this part, don’t hesitate to contact us.