I've taken Airborne many times before, and I basically like it, but this is my least favorite flavor. It tastes like medicine. Try instead the pink grapefruit flavor, or the orange one. The cider-flavored nighttime version that you make with hot water is also reasonably tasty.

About that "basically" liking it: I'm working part-time and attending school, spending my days surrounded by germy students, spending my nights getting very little sleep, and generally being under a lot of stress. And I *really* don't have time to get sick. So at the beginning of the semester, I bought a couple of tubes of Airborne and some boxes of Emergen-C. For three months, I've been taking one Emergen-C packet every morning and having a dose of Airborne in the evening whenever I feel especially worn down (about once every two weeks).

The result? I have not been sick *one single day* in three months. This time last year, I had one cold after another--or maybe a continuous cold that started in mid-September and dragged on until March. So it's my unscientific opinion that the daily Emergen-C is making a difference. Like I said, I do still take the occasional Airborne, but since Emergen-C costs about 2/3 less per serving, if you're going to take one of these as a preventive, Emergen-C is the better deal.