Connie Wan is no different than any other parent who has struggled to get a little kid to take medication during a bout of sickness. She fumbled with syringes and syrups and worried whether the proper measurements had been made and dosages consumed.
Shopping in Costco back around 2007, Wan was attracted to the popular gummy vitamin brand L’il Critters. Wheels started turning in the mind of the PhD chemist and patent attorney as she pictured her young son chewing, rather than swallowing, a gummy form of allergy medicine or a pain or cough reliever.
