Use this Boots own cough syrup containing soothing agents to relieve irritating dry, tickly coughs and sore throats. Suitable for adults and Children over 1 years old. Buy here now - £3.99 3.

It's also what gives sugar-free cough sweets their taste. Halls sugar-free mentholyptus cherry flavour, sold in the likes of Tesco and Boots also contains the sweetener.