Best Sugar-Free Cough Drops

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Best Sugar-Free Cough Drops. Cough drops. They are what we all reach for when we have, you guessed it, a cough or a tickle in our throat. But how about if you are looking for some cough drops but are watching your sugar content? Do sugar-free cough drops exist and if so, which are the best? What flavors do they come in and most importantly what sweeteners are used in them? In this post, I will let you in on 10 awesome sugar-free cough drops. Make sure to read right to the end to see the handy table I have put together detailing the sweeteners used in each cough drop.

Spoiler alert – I hope you like isomalt as it seems to be a prerequisite for a sugar-free cough drop to contain isomalt (although number 10 on this list doesn’t contain it).

Let’s dig in – What are the best sugar-free cough drops?

What Are The Best Sugar-Free Cough Drops?

As a general rule, the following brands make sugar-free cough drops –

• Ricola
• Halls
• Luden’s
• Amazon
• Herbion Naturals
• Fisherman’s Friend.

1. RicoIa Sugar-free Original Swiss Herb Cough Drops

*Sweetened with aspartame, sorbitol and isomalt*

One of the most popular cough drops out there has to be from the Ricola brand. Their original herb variety is what Ricola is famed for – and for good reason – it’s such an unusual flavor, but it works.

Well, did you know that Ricola also has a sugar-free variety of their original herb cough drops? Yes, that’s right – and they are sweetened with aspartame, sorbitol and isomalt. These Sugar-Free Ricola cough drops are my personal pick for when I have a sore throat (I personally opt for the Lemon Mint ones below – see entry 2). I buy a big pack and carry the little yellow cough drops with me everywhere I go.

You can try these herby sugar-free cough sweets from Amazon here.

2. Ricola Sugar-free Lemon Mint Herbal Cough Drops 

*Sweetened with aspartame and isomalt*

Ricola’s popular lemon mint cough drops are also available in a sugar-free variety. The lemon mint flavor is also sweetened with fewer sweeteners than the original – just aspartame and isomalt. As I mentioned above these are my go-to cough drops.

You can try them for yourself on Amazon here.

3. Halls Minis Cherry Flavor Sugar-free Cough Drops

*Sweetened with acesulfame potassium, isomalt, and aspartame*

Halls is the brand of all brands when it comes to cough drops. So, it shouldn’t be a huge surprise that Halls makes several appearances on this list. First up is a sugar-free variety from their minis range – and they are cherry flavored.

These sugar-free mini–Halls Cough drops are sweetened with acesulfame potassium, isomalt, and aspartame.

 They can be found on Amazon here.

4. Halls Cool Berry Sugar-free Cough Drops

*Sweetened with acesulfame potassium, aspartame, isomalt, and maltitol syrup*

Halls cool berry sugar-free cough drops contain even more sweeteners – acesulfame potassium, aspartame, isomalt, and maltitol syrup.

You can check Halls Cool Berry sugar-free cough drops out for yourself on Amazon here.

5. Halls Relief Honey Lemon Sugar-free Cough Drops

*Sweetened with sucralose and isomalt*

The sugar-free honey lemon flavor would be my personal choice out of the Halls’s sugar-free range. This is because fewer sweeteners are used in the honey lemon flavor than the other flavors – sucralose and isomalt are just used. You can see for yourself on Amazon here.

6. Luden’s Sugar-free Wild Cherry Cough Drops

*Sweetened with isomalt and acesulfame potassium*

Another sugar-free cough drop range comes from Luden. Luden’s Sugar-free cough drops only come in one flavor – but it’s a good one – wild cherry. Luden’s wild cherry sugar-free cough drops are sweetened with isomalt and acesulfame potassium and can be found on Amazon here.

7. Amazon Basic Care Sugar-free Honey Lemon Cough Drops

*Sweetened with sucralose, acesulfame potassium, isomalt and maltitol*

Even Amazon has its own sugar-free cough drops! Yes, that’s right, and one of the flavors they come in is a classic – honey lemon. These honey lemon sugar-free cough drops are sweetened with sucralose, acesulfame potassium, isomalt, and maltitol, and can be found on Amazon here.

8. Amazon Basic Care Sugar-free Menthol Cough Drops

*Sweetened with sucralose, acesulfame potassium, isomalt and maltitol*

Amazon’s sugar-free cough drops also come in a flavor that hasn’t made an appearance yet on this list – menthol! Menthol isn’t the flavor for the faint-hearted. Just like the honey lemon variety, Amazon’s sugar-free menthol cough drops are sweetened with 4 sweeteners – sucralose, acesulfame potassium, isomalt, and maltitol.

If a sugar-free menthol cough drop is what you are after, you can find them on Amazon here.

9. Herbion Naturals Sugar-free Orange Cough Drops 

*Sweetened with isomalt and stevia*

Another brand that makes a sugar-free cough drop is Herbion. They actually make sugar-free cough drops in a flavor that hasn’t appeared yet on this list – orange. Herbion sugar-free cough drops are also the first drops in this list to be sweetened with stevia – stevia and isomalt to be precise.

You can see for yourself on Amazon here.

10. Fisherman’s Friend Sugar-free Cherry Cough Drops

*Sweetened with acesulfame k, sorbitol, and sucralose*

The final sugar-free cough drop on this list comes from an old-school brand – Fisherman’s Friend! Raise your hand if you remember Fisherman’s Friend.

You can try Fisherman’s Friend sugar-free cough drops in what is evidentially a very popular cough drop flavor – cherry. Fisherman’s Friend sugar-free cough drops can be found on Amazon here.

The sweeteners used in these bad boys are acesulfame K, sorbitol, and sucralose. Did you notice something there – no isomalt?

That means if, for whatever reason you are looking for a sugar-free cough drop that doesn’t contain isomalt, Fisherman’s Friend is it.

Summary Table – Sugar-Free Cough Drop

Below is a summary table for all the cough drops I mentioned above. For each entry, I list the sweeteners used since all of them are sugar-free.

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Sugar-Free Cough Drop	Sweeteners Used
1. RicoIa Sugar-free Original Swiss Herb Cough Drops	Aspartame, sorbitol and isomalt
3. Halls Minis Cherry Flavor Sugar-free Cough Drops	Acesulfame potassium, aspartame, isomalt, and maltitol syrup
4. Halls Cool Berry Sugar-free Cough Drops	Acesulfame potassium, aspartame, isomalt and maltitol syrup
5. Halls Relief Honey Lemon Sugar-free Cough Drops	Sucralose and isomalt
6. Luden’s Sugar-free Wild Cherry Cough Drops	Isomalt and acesulfame potassium
7. Amazon Basic Care Sugar-free Honey Lemon Cough Drops	Sucralose, acesulfame potassium, isomalt and maltitol
8. Amazon Basic Care Sugar-free Menthol Cough Drops	Sucralose, acesulfame potassium, isomalt, and maltitol
9. Herbion Naturals Sugar-free Orange Cough Drops	Isomalt and stevia
10. Fisherman’s Friend Sugar-free Cherry Cough Drops	Acesulfame k, sorbitol and sucralose

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Best Sugar-Free Cough Drops – The Final Bite

Best Sugar-Free Cough Drops. What have we learned from the above? Well, when it comes to cough drops the good news is that there are plenty of sugar-free brands available. In fact, there are a whole lot of them. All the entries on my list above are sugar-free cough drops. That means when deciding what is the best sugar-free cough drop for you there are only two decisions you must make. First, what alternative sweeteners do you want your cough drop to contain, and second, flavor preference? Personally, I go for the Ricola Lemon Mint Herbal Cough Drops – I like the flavor and they work well for me.

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