Please click on the Store Locator icon located on the top right tool bar, select the product you are looking for, and then enter your ZIP code. The database will provide you with a list of local retailers that carry your favorite Ricola product. Alternatively, you can visit, www.theconsumerlink.com/ricola and order online. If your favorite flavor does not appear on the Provident Marketing offering, it may have been discontinued and may no longer be available in the US.
All of our cough, throat and vitamin C drops are Kosher and are manufactured in Laufen, Switzerland. If a copy of the kosher certificate is needed, please write to info@ricolausa.com requesting a certificate and providing us with a fax number or address to forward a copy.
In the United States, there are no established government standards as to what can be considered gluten-free or what is safe for use in celiac patients. Our products contain less than 0.01% gluten. We urge you to share this information with your doctor or to contact the Celiac Sprue Association of the USA @1-877-CSA-4CSA.
Ricola Original Herb Cough Drops are made today exactly as they were made more than 75 years ago when they were first invented. This is what gives Ricola Original Herb its Classic "rough-cut" shape. All the newer varieties are produced using a different process, giving them an oval shape.
Sugar-free products are more expensive to manufacture than the sugar based product, so to keep the prices in line, the sugar-free bags contain 19 drops, while the sugar bags contain 24.
The name Ricola is derived from the name of the owner family, Richterich, and the name of the town in Switzerland where Ricola products were invented and are still produced today, called Laufen. So take the first two letters of RIchterich COmpany LAufen - and you have RICOLA!
That is a question we get asked all the time and it just so happens there is no one "right" way. If you live in Europe and had a sore throat, you would say "Pardon me friend, do you have a Ricola" (listen). In the United States, since it is typical to put the stress on the second syllable of words, it would sound more like "My throat is really bothering me, could I bum a Ricola (listen) off you?" However, if you were feeling particularly harmonious and wanted to scream our name from the mountaintops, may we suggest "Riiii-cola (listen).
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