Quantum HealthTheraZinc Lemon Lozenges, Made with Zinc Gluconate for Immune Support, 24 Count

I love Quantum Zinc and have used it for the past 21 years! It is Fabulous for treating sore throats, coughs, etc and it is a Proven fact that Zinc boosts your Immune System!!! So this is a win win all the way around!!

Therazinc lozenges prevent me from contracting viruses. I start taking them at the first sniffle.I highly recommend these lozenges!

Nice taste and easy to use. Using it at the very beginning of flu/cold symptoms, for me, helped to minimize continued development of flu.

We have used these lozenges for years now to prevent colds. If I feel the feeling in my throat like I am getting a cold and Vitamin C alone does not get rid of it, I take 1 of these lozenges (dissolve in mouth) and another half a day later. In most cases, I end up with no cold at all but maybe one out of five, I have a cold that lasts for about 3 days with hardly any symptoms. It is wonderful and costs only about 80 cents to get rid of that cold. They also come in cherry flavor but our family likes the lemon the best.

I have great confidence in the ability of zinc to shorten my ailments

I like it, but my kids don't like the taste

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 (but not general dietary supplementation), 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.I hope this proves helpful to some.

the taste left a little 2 B desired, but twas better than some/many/most.