Halls (cough drop)

Halls Cough Drops

A stick of Extra Strong Halls
Owner Mondelēz International, Cadbury
Introduced 1930s
Markets Throat lozenges / Cough Drops
Website http://www.gethalls.com/

Halls is the brand name of a popular mentholated cough drop. Halls cough drops (categorized as a cough suppressant/oral anaesthetic by the manufacturer) are sold by the Cadbury-Adams Division of Cadbury, now owned by Mondelēz International, and have long been advertised as featuring "Vapor Action". Halls was first made in the 1930s in Stanley Road, Whitefield, Lancashire, United Kingdom by the Halls Brothers company (founded 1893). Halls Brothers was acquired by Warner-Lambert in 1964. Production in Whitefield ceased in the late 1980s. When Pfizer acquired Warner-Lambert in 2000, the Halls brand came with the entire Adams portfolio (which included Trident gum, Dentyne, Chiclets and Freshen Up, among others). Two years later, Adams was bought out by Cadbury, who were subsequently purchased by Kraft foods, which was later restructured and renamed Mondelēz International - as of 2015, Mondelēz International owns the Halls brand worldwide.

Varieties

In the UK

The following Halls varieties are listed on Cadbury's UK web site.

The "Soothers" varieties do not list menthol on their ingredients[1] and their packaging does not describe them as a medicine or specify any dosage instructions, but supermarkets frequently categorise them as common cold treatment.

Drug information

The menthol ingredient acts as local anesthetic and "creates a cooling sensation".[2] Also acts as a cough suppressant.[3]

Packages of Halls in a store
Active Ingredient: Menthol 7 mg
Inactive Ingredients: Eucalyptus Oil, FD&C Blue 2, FD&C Red 40, Flavors, Glucose Syrup, Soy Lecithin, Sucralose, Sucrose, Water
Active Ingredient: Menthol 7.5 mg
Inactive Ingredients: Beta Carotene, Flavorings, Glucose Syrup, Honey, Soy Lecithin, Sucrose
Active Ingredient: Menthol 2.5 mg
Inactive Ingredients: citric acid, flavorings, ginger, glucose syrup, honey, lemon grass, sage, :sucrose, tea extract, water, white thyme
Active Ingredient: Menthol 10 mg
Inactive Ingredients: Blue 1, Flavorings, Glucose Syrup, Sucrose
Active Ingredient: Menthol 15 mg
Inactive Ingredients: citric acid, eucalyptus oil, FD&C blue 1, flavors, glucose syrup, potassium citrate, soy lecithin, sucrose, water
Active Ingredients: Menthol 5.4 mg
Inactive Ingredients: Flavorings, Glucose Syrup, Sucrose
Active Ingredients: Menthol 19.7 mg, Eucalyptus oil 9.8mg
Inactive Ingredients: Citric acid, FD&C Blue No.1, flavors, glucose syrup, gum arabic, potassium citrate, soy lecithin, sucrose
Active Ingredients: Menthol 5.8 mg
Inactive Ingredients: Acesulfame Potassium, Aspartame, Eucalyptus Oil, FD&C Blue 1, FD&C Red 40, Flavors, Isomalt, Sodium Carboxymethylcellulose, Soy Lecithin, Water
Active Ingredient: Menthol 5.6 mg
Inactive Ingredients: Beta Carotene, Blue 1, Flavorings, Glucose Syrup, Soy Lecithin, Sucrose
Active Ingredient: Menthol 3.1 mg
Inactive Ingredients: Flavorings, Glucose Syrup, Red 40, Sucrose
Active Ingredient: Menthol 2.5 mg
Inactive Ingredients: beta carotene, citric acid, flavorings, ginger, glucose syrup, lemon grass, :sage, sucrose, water, white thyme
Active Ingredient: Menthol 2.5 mg
Inactive Ingredients: Caramel, flavorings, ginger, glucose syrup, lemon grass, sage, sucrose, water, white thyme
Active Ingredient: Menthol 3.1 mg
Inactive Ingredients: FD&C red no. 40, Flavorings, Glucose Syrup, Sucrose, Water
Active Ingredient: Menthol 2.5 mg
Inactive Ingredients: citric acid, elderberry juice, flavorings, ginger, glucose syrup, lemon grass, sage, sucrose, water, white thyme

Additional information

A stick of Mint and Eucalyptus flavored Halls, as sold in Brazil

The Halls Defense line consists of flavorings containing Vitamin C but do not contain menthol and suppress coughs.

Halls Fruit Breezers, launched as a non-mentholated lozenge, comes in many flavors such as: Cool Berry, Cool Creamy Orange, Cool Creamy Strawberry, Tropical Chill, and Cool Citrus Blend.

Halls also produces a sugar free line of mentholated cough drops.

In some parts of the world, including Brazil,[4] Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia,[5] Philippines, and Pakistan, Halls is advertised as a mentholated hard candy and is not recognized as a medicine for coughs. In the UK, Halls Extra Strong has recently dropped all mention of an active ingredient (or of coughs) from the packaging, which now describes the contents as "Extra Strong Original flavour hard boiled sweets."

References

  1. ↑ For example, the information printed on a pack of blackcurrant soothers says: BLACKCURRANT SWEETS WITH LIQUID CENTRES. MADE WITH FRUIT JUICE. Ingredients: Sugar, Glucose syrup, Glucose-fructose syrup, Water, Stabiliser (Glycerol), Acids (E270, E330), Concentrated blackcurrant juice (0.26%), Flavourings, Acidity regulators (E325, E332), Concentrated black carrot juice, Colour (Vegetable carbon), Emulsifier (Sunflower lecithin). That on the peach and raspberry soothers is very similar, replacing BLACKCURRANT with PEACH AND RASPBERRY FLAVOUR, listing Flavourings before the juice and the juice itself as Concentrated peach and raspberry juices (0.3% which a footnote expands as equivalent to 2.2% Fruit Juice) and listing the Colour (Paprika extract for this flavour) before the concentrated black carrot juice. P&R flavour information from a packet bought in the UK Feb 2013
  2. ↑ "Halls Cough Drops (Menthol)". Iodine, Medication information that really helps. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "HALLS MENTHO-LYPTUS (Pfizer Consumer Group)". Drugs.com. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "Halls advertised as candy in Brazil".
  5. ↑ http://nachocabrera.net/halls-sandia-y-naranjilla/

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