CHEWABLE MOLDED TABLET CONTAINING MEDICINALLY ACTIVE SUBSTANCES

Rhere is provided a chewable medicinal tableting composition comprising as proportions of the total composition which will further comprise the medicinally active component, as first essential component: capric triglyceride: about 30 to about 95% by weight, and as second essential component: the medicinally active ingredient: up to 60 % by weight. Where the medicinally active ingrdient is less than about 30% by weight the composition further comprises as third essential component, a member of the group consisting of glyceryl monostearate, a mixture of glyceryl monostearate and glyceryl monopalmitate, and a mixture comprising at least about 40-50 % by weight of glyceryl monostearate, and glyceryl distearate: up to 10% by weight. There are also disclosed methods of making these compositions c:\\wp51\\chav\\025b4.spc