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Pine Bros Wild Cherry and Real Honey softish throat drop bags on a sunlit oak table beside a bowl of fresh cherries and a piece of honeycomb, with embossed PINE drops scattered in front.

America's first gummy throat drop

Soothe your throat
without the hard candy crunch

Pine Bros drops are softish. They give when you press them. Gum acacia, honey and plant glycerin make up 51% of what is inside, and there is no menthol and no gluten.

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Softish since 1870  ·  No menthol  ·  No gluten

156Years soothing American throats, since 1870
51%Key ingredients: gum acacia, honey, plant glycerin
1,802Grocery locations in the store finder below
25States where a nearby store stocks it

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Five flavors, one softish body

Every bag is approximately 30 drops of the same glycerin and gum acacia recipe. Pick a pack size, or take a full case.

Buy a 24 count case

Direct from Pine Brothers

The 24 count case

The only pack Pine Brothers ships from its own store. Single flavor, or a mixed case of honey, cherry and one more. Free shipping applies with a discount code at checkout.

  • 24 bags, approximately 720 drops
  • Mixed flavor cases available
  • One free extra bag while the offer runs

$143.76

$5.99 a bag

Buy a case direct

Single packs and multipacks ship from Amazon. Cases ship direct from Pine Brothers.

The softish difference

Most throat drops are a hard shell you wait out

They crack against your teeth, they cut the roof of your mouth, and the menthol arrives like a slap. Pine Bros went a different way in 1870 and never changed it.

A hard drop

  • Cracks and splinters when you bite down
  • Sharp edges against an already raw throat
  • A menthol blast that overwhelms before it soothes

A softish drop

  • Gives under pressure, chews down gently
  • Gum acacia coats instead of scraping
  • No menthol, no gluten, nothing to brace for

Try it yourself

Press and hold each one

One of them gives. One of them is what you have been putting up with.

Macro photograph of a rigid glassy amber hard candy squeezed between a thumb and forefinger, keeping its shape completely with no dimple and no embossing.

A hard shell drop

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Press and hold

Macro photograph of a Pine Bros drop held lightly between a thumb and forefinger: a thick translucent cherry red oval disc with PINE embossed across its face, completely undeformed. The same drop squeezed hard, visibly squashed flatter and wider, dimpled where the fingertip presses and bulging at the sides, with the embossed PINE lettering distorting.

A Pine Bros softish drop

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Press and hold

Softish since 1870. A throat drop that gives when you press it, made the same way in Philadelphia for 156 years.

What makes it different

Built for throats that have work to do

It gives when you press it

A soft, gummy body instead of a hard shell. Nothing to crack, nothing sharp to work around while your throat is already sore.

Gum acacia does the coating

Imported tree sap used for thousands of years as an oral demulcent. It is also a prebiotic containing fiber.

Ranked first for coating action

In independent clinical testing Pine Bros ranked first over other leading brands for Throat Coating Action.*

On the shelf, not just online

Carried in eleven grocery chains. Find the closest one before you make the trip.

* Throat Coating Action and TCA are trademarks of Pine Brothers.

Finding a bag

Three steps to a bag near you

1

Enter a ZIP code

A city or a state works too.

2

See the closest stores

Nearest first, with the address and a number to call.

3

Ask in the cough and cold aisle

Worth a quick call first. Shelves change week to week.

Looking down a supermarket cough and cold aisle, shelves receding into soft focus on both sides.
Pine Bros lives in the cough and cold aisle, not behind the counter.

Store finder

Find a bag near you

Real store records from eleven grocery chains across 25 states. Search by ZIP code, city or state.

Enter a ZIP code to see the nearest stocking stores.

Enter a ZIP code to plot the closest stores.

Distances are as the crow flies, not driving miles. Target and Price Chopper are not in this list yet.

A singer stands at a studio condenser microphone with headphones around her neck, sheet music and a glass of water on the stand beside her.

A real customer story

I travel with them when singing the National Anthem for MLS and MLB games, and always recommend them to my students.

Amy Suznovich
Voice teacher and professional singer

Amy tried fourteen different cough drops before settling on this one.

Our story

A confectioner on 8th Street solved his own sore throat

In 1870 J. Herman Pine, a German immigrant, hung out a confectionery shingle on 8th Street above Walnut in Philadelphia and sold his first batch of Pine Brothers Glycerine Tablets. He had combined plant glycerin with gum acacia into one softish drop, trying to soothe his own throat.

He wrote that he had discovered something which would give quick throat relief to thousands afflicted as he was, and added that perhaps he would not make much money from it, but he could make people happy, and that mattered more. The recipe has been soothing American throats for 156 years since.

A nineteenth century confectioner's marble worktop in daylight: a brass balance scale, a copper pan, paper apothecary envelopes and a jar of amber tree resin, with a few translucent throat drops resting on the marble.
Gum acacia, honey and plant glycerin. The same three things since 1870.

Questions

The things people ask in the aisle

It is the texture. A Pine Bros drop gives when you press it rather than cracking like a hard shell candy. Pine Bros calls it America's first gummy throat drop.

No. Pine Bros drops contain no menthol and no gluten.

A tree sap imported from sub Saharan Africa. It has been used for thousands of years as an oral demulcent to coat and soothe throats, and it is also a prebiotic containing fiber. With honey and plant glycerin it makes up 51% of the drop.

Five: Wild Cherry, Real Honey, Sugar Free Wild Cherry, Elderberry and Licorice. Not every banner carries every flavor.

Single bags are approximately 30 drops, in every flavor. Pine Bros also makes a larger 100 drop bag. The count is printed on the front of every bag.

Grocery chains including Stop and Shop, Wegmans, Harris Teeter, Meijer, Hannaford, Ingles, Tops, Market Basket, Big Y, Roche Bros and Woodman's. Use the store finder to search your ZIP code.

No. It shows stores in chains that carry the brand. Shelf stock moves week to week, so call the store first if you are making a trip for it.

Yes. Pine Brothers sells 24 count cases directly, including mixed flavor cases, on its own shop page. Single bags and multipacks are sold through Amazon.

Pick a flavor before your voice gives out

Five flavors, four pack sizes, or a full case. Or find a bag in one of 1,802 stores near you.

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