PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide thin-layer sugar-coated tablets useful for masking own offensive odor and preventing themselves from developing whiskers, enabling themselves to be made sugarless, short in production time, and also enabling themselves to be miniaturized and made low in moisture content.SOLUTION: The thin-layer sugar-coated tablets are provided, being obtained by hand-coating bare tablets with a sugar-coating liquid containing a carbohydrate such as sucrose or a sugar alcohol, especially erythritol, an excipient and a binder, or spraying them with the liquid as droplets of 0.1-1,000 μm in size to coat them with a sugar coat at 10-60 wt.% based on the bare tablets.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】不快な臭いのマスキングおよびウイスカーの発生の防止に有用で、シュガーレス化が可能であり、製造時間も短く、小型化、低水分化が可能な薄層糖衣錠を提供すること。【解決手段】素錠に対し、ショ糖や糖アルコール、特にエリスリトールのような糖質、賦形剤および結合剤を含む糖衣液を手がけし、あるいは0.1~1000μmの液滴として噴霧して、素錠重量の10~60%の糖衣を施す。【選択図】なし