A-Tab® MD Chewable Tablets

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Chewable Tablets with Twice the Active

A-Tab® MD enables higher active loading in chewable tablets while maintaining excellent compressibility, low friability, and superior tablet strength. This allows manufacturers to develop chewable supplements that deliver higher active levels in the same tablet size, helping to simplify formulations and improve the consumer experience.

Challenges with Active Loading in Chewable Tablets

Chewable tablets are increasingly popular in dietary supplements, but formulators often face challenges when trying to increase active ingredient levels while maintaining tablet strength and consumer-friendly texture. As active loading increases, it becomes more difficult to maintain tablet strength, minimize excipients, and deliver a pleasant mouthfeel. These formulation constraints can slow development, increase complexity, and limit how much active ingredient can be delivered in a single chewable tablet.

Achieve Higher Active Loading and Superior Tablet Integrity using A-Tab® MD

A-Tab® MD is a multifunctional, co-processed excipient combining dicalcium phosphate anhydrous and maltodextrin, developed to improve compressibility and tablet integrity in dietary supplements, including chewable tablets.

By improving compressibility and overall tablet performance, A-Tab® MD enables formulators to increase active loading while maintaining strong, stable tablets with fewer excipients.

In technical evaluations, chewable tablets formulated with A-Tab® MD achieved double the active loading compared with a leading commercial product, while maintaining excellent friability and tablet properties.

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Value Proposition

For Manufacturers

Double the load of active ingredient
Improved compressibility and tablet integrity
Low friability for stronger tablets
Fewer excipients required
Faster formulation development and greater manufacturing efficiency

For Consumers

One tablet replacing multiple
Better texture and improved mouthfeel
Cleaner label with fewer formulation components
Source of calcium and phosphorus
Greater convenience and improved efficacy potential

Frequently Asked Questions

What is active loading in chewable tablets?

Active loading in chewable tablets refers to the percentage of active ingredient contained in a tablet relative to its total weight. Higher active loading allows manufacturers to deliver more functional ingredients in a single chewable tablet without increasing tablet size, helping reduce the number of tablets required per serving.

Why is increasing active loading in chewable tablets difficult?

Increasing active loading in chewable tablets can make tablets more difficult to manufacture and may negatively affect tablet strength, friability, and mouthfeel. As active levels rise, formulators often need additional excipients to maintain tablet integrity and consumer-friendly texture.

How does A-Tab® MD improve chewable tablet formulations?

A-Tab® MD improves chewable tablet formulations by enhancing compressibility and tablet integrity. This co-processed excipient combines dicalcium phosphate anhydrous and maltodextrin, enabling formulators to achieve higher active loading while maintaining strong, stable tablets with fewer excipients.

How much active loading can be achieved using A-Tab® MD?

In technical evaluations, chewable tablets formulated with A-Tab® MD achieved double the active loading compared with a leading commercial product while maintaining excellent friability and tablet performance.

Can chewable tablets deliver higher doses without increasing tablet size?

Yes. Advanced excipient technologies can allow formulators to increase active loading while maintaining tablet strength and manufacturability. This makes it possible to deliver higher doses in the same tablet size, improving convenience for consumers.

A-Tab® MD Chewable Tablets

Chewable Tablets with Twice the Active

Build Better Chewable Tablets

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Frequently Asked Questions