Patent ID: 8153161

Claim:
A medicament-containing particle wherein an unpleasant taste of the medicament is masked, which is obtained by mixing and granulating a composition consisting essentially of the following ingredients: (1) the medicament with an unpleasant taste, (2) methylcellulose, and (3) mannitol, wherein the amount of the methylcellulose is 0.8 to 5 parts by weight per 1 part by weight of the medicament with an unpleasant taste, the amount of the mannitol is 0.3 to 12 parts by weight per 1 part by weight of the methylcellulose, and wherein the methylcellulose does not overall cover over the medicament, and a part of the medicament exists on the surface of the particle, and the unpleasant taste of the medicament was not felt at all.