Other Solid Forms
Roquette provides a diverse range of excipients tailored for alternative oral solid dosage forms. These solutions help formulators overcome challenges in taste masking, stability, and processability while meeting patient expectations for pleasant, convenient, and compliant oral delivery formats. Each excipient class is designed to optimize both product performance and sensory experience across chewables, lozenges, effervescent, dissolving films, and medicated confectionery.
Innovative Alternative Solid Oral Dosage Forms for Enhanced Patient Compliance
Not all patients can, or want to, take traditional tablets. To meet the needs of diverse patient populations, including pediatrics, geriatrics, and consumer health markets, alternative oral solid dosage forms are increasingly used. From chewables and lozenges to effervescent tablets, orally dissolving films, and medicated confectionery, these formats provide patient-friendly options that enhance compliance and consumer experience.
These dosage forms require carefully selected excipients to deliver pleasant taste, optimized stability, and robust manufacturability. Roquette offers a comprehensive portfolio of excipients that meet these demands while maintaining functionality and regulatory compliance, empowering formulators to design patient-centric therapies.
Our Solutions
Chewables and Effervescents
Chewable and effervescent formats demand excipients that provide stability, clean sweetness, and patient appeal. Roquette supports these needs with non-cariogenic sweeteners and sugar-free polyols, such as NEOSORB® sorbitol, which enhance taste, ensure chemical stability, and contribute to pleasant mouthfeel. These solutions help formulators deliver consumer-friendly dosage forms that align with regulatory requirements for pediatric, geriatric, and over-the-counter health products.
Orally Dissolving Films
To support patient populations with swallowing difficulties, Roquette offers film-forming pea starch excipients that enable the development of orally dissolving films. LYCOAT® hydroxypropyl pea starch provides excellent film-forming capability, mechanical strength, and disintegration performance. These excipients facilitate convenient and fast-dissolving dosage formats designed to improve compliance without compromising formulation integrity.
Plant-Based Soft Capsules
As a sustainable alternative to gelatin capsules, LYCAGEL® plant-based softgel premix delivers reliable shell formation using pea starch technology. Developed to meet consumer demand for non-animal, stable, and process-efficient soft capsule formulations, this solution enables formulators to expand product offerings while maintaining high-quality standards and regulatory alignment.
Medicated Confectionery and Granules
For innovative formats such as medicated confectionery, granules, and premixes, Roquette provides maltodextrin-based excipients that act as effective bulking and binding agents. These materials improve blend uniformity, handling, and manufacturability while maintaining product stability and sensory quality. This enables the creation of dosage forms that combine efficacy, taste, and convenience in a single product experience.
Our Services and Expertise
Our Customer Technical Services (CTS) team plays a central role in helping formulators bring innovative oral solid dosage forms to market efficiently and confidently. With expertise spanning chewables, lozenges, effervescent, films, and plant-based softgels, CTS specialists collaborate closely with partners to address key formulation challenges, including taste masking, stability optimization, and manufacturing efficiency. Their hands-on technical guidance ensures smooth scale-up and robust process performance from early development through commercial production.
Beyond technical support, Roquette maintains a strong regulatory and sustainability focus, ensuring that each solution aligns with evolving global standards and industry expectations. By leveraging renewable, plant-based raw materials and deep formulation know-how, Roquette helps customers design safe, compliant, and patient-friendly dosage forms that enhance accessibility and adherence across populations.
High-Quality Excipients for Patient-Friendly Oral Dosage Design
Roquette’s key excipients for alternative oral solid dosage forms combine performance, sensory quality, and safety. Each product is developed with patient experience and regulatory compliance in mind.
LYCAGEL® hydroxypropyl pea starch-based softgel premix
LYCAGEL® hydroxypropyl pea starch-based softgel premix serves as an alternative to gelatin for soft capsules. LYCAGEL® provides reliable shell formation and mechanical strength in soft capsule manufacturing.
LYCOAT® hydroxypropyl pea starch
LYCOAT® hydroxypropyl pea starch is a film-forming agent enabling orally dissolving films and capsule coatings, supporting flexible, fast-dissolving dosage designs.
NEOSORB® sorbitol is a sugar-free polyol
NEOSORB® sorbitol is a sugar-free polyol offering excellent stability for chewables and effervescent. Provides non-cariogenic sweetness and supports patient-friendly formulations.
Our Applications
Biologics
Stabilizers, cryoprotectants, and process aids for safe, efficient biologic formulation and manufacturing.
Injectables, Dialysis and APIs
High-purity excipients ensuring biocompatibility and isotonicity in parenteral and dialysis applications.
Oral Dosage Solutions
Functional excipients improving flow, compressibility, solubility, and taste for tablets and capsules.