You can now buy peppermint mocha cough drops
Of all the products that change flavors for the holidays, one you might not expect to see bursting with seasonal excitement is cough drops. Sure, there’s plenty of themed candy around each year, but medicine? Like it or not, this is real and there are more varieties to choose from now than ever before.
In case you missed it, CVS dropped pumpkin spice cough drops in 2017 and I have been skeptical ever since. Why? Because they also contain menthol and the combination of mint and pumpkin spice sounds like a stomachache I definitely don’t need if I’m already feeling under the weather.
CVS is not done, however, and has launched a brand new flavor for the winter. This time, I think I can get behind it. Say hello to the newest cough drop on the block: Peppermint Mocha!
Unlike pumpkin spice and CVS’s other fall flavor, caramel apple, adding menthol to peppermint mocha honestly sounds pretty good. Because menthol is found in peppermint and spearmint, the combination simply sounds extra minty, with the menthol also providing a cooling feeling to relieve a cough and sore throat.
To be fair, I have never tried any of the aforementioned cough drops, so I can’t say if pumpkin spice menthol is weird or not. But knowing what menthol tastes like, I feel confident in saying the peppermint mocha is likely the best of the three — and probably pretty delicious (as far as cough drops go, of course).
CVS actually isn’t the first to think of a mocha mint flavor for cough drops, as Halls and Organix Complete both made them at one point as well. As far as I can tell, however, CVS is currently the only place you’ll find the flavor.
Halls does make some other interesting flavors, like grapefruit and watermelon, though those varieties do not contain menthol.
When it comes to peppermint mocha-flavored items, though, you have options.
If you have no choice but to venture out in the cold while sick this winter, it’s not a bad idea to pick up a dose of caffeine to keep you going — at least until you get your hands on a bag of cough drops.