{"id":8707,"date":"2016-02-22T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cartridgepeople.com\/blog\/infographic-influence-colour-medicine-and-appetite"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:12:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:12:42","slug":"infographic-influence-colour-medicine-and-appetite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartridgepeople.com\/info\/blog\/infographic-influence-colour-medicine-and-appetite","title":{"rendered":"Infographic: Influence of Colour on Medicine and Appetite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The earliest forms of oral medication emerged in ancient Egypt, and for the next 5,000 years all pills were circular and white. Colour has only been a part of medication since the 1960\u2019s, when advances in technology allowed them to be made in a limited range of colours. With the advent of \u2018softgel\u2019 technology in 1975, a wider range of colours became available for medicines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, gel caps can be tinted to any of 80,000 colour combinations, and tablets can be coated in a wide range of colours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But how much difference does the colour of a medicine make? It makes absolutely no difference to the effects of the drugs, but can benefit both consumers and pharmaceutical companies in a variety of functional ways.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"4082\" src=\"https:\/\/infowp.cartridgepeople.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/influence-colour-medicine-and-appetite-infographic.png\" alt=\"Influence of colour on medicine and appetite infographic.\" class=\"wp-image-15424\" title=\"Influence Colour, Medicine and Appetite Infographic\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cartridgepeople.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/influence-colour-medicine-and-appetite-infographic.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.cartridgepeople.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/influence-colour-medicine-and-appetite-infographic-75x300.png 75w, 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