摘要 |
Disclosed is an excipient for use in the production of a pharmaceutical preparation, which can dilute an active ingredient in the fields of foods, medicines and others, can be used in various types of tablets including disintegrating tablets and troches, rarely causes tableting failure including capping and sticking which are problems in the conventional drug production using mannitol, and ensures high tablet hardness. Specifically disclosed is an excipient for tableting, which is characterized by comprising spherical mannitol crystal particles having an aspect ratio of 1.0 to 1.2 and an oil absorption ratio (1) and an oil absorption ratio (2) both as measured in accordance with Test Method A of 25 to 60% and 15 to 40%, respectively. |