CHEWABLE COATED TABLET

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a coated tablet chewable as a chewable tablet, and hardly causing problems such as breakage by selecting the hardness of an inner core tablet of the coated tablet so as to be within a given range regulated by the diameter of the inner core tablet. SOLUTION: This chewable coated tablet comprises an inner core tablet (preferably the one containing easily oxidizable medicine or a discoloring medicine as an active ingredient), and a coating layer for coating the inner core tablet (preferably sugar coating), and obtained by regulating the hardness (N) of the inner core tablet so as to be 4-8 times as much as the value of the diameter (mm) of the tablet. The shape of the tablet can be formed into the disk shape same as a conventional chewable tablet. The diameter of the inner core tablet of the tablet is preferably 5-14 mm, and the thickness is preferably >=0.3, especially 0.5-0.75 when the diameter of the tablet is 1. As a result, a variety of medicines in a shape of the chewable tablet can be provided.