Chesty&Cough mixture

Unknown brand

5011309019117

Processing

Ultra-processed

Group 4 of 4 on the NOVA scale

Additives listed

None we have assessed

3 of them not yet assessed here

Nutrients

–

Nothing above the low band

Or no figures recorded at all

Three separate readings, kept apart on purpose. This is not a score, and none of it says this product is harmful.

Additives (3)

This label lists 1 carrier. 2 more we cannot place from the code alone.

Also on the label, not assessed here yet

E1510 Ethanol carrier
E215 No entry in our register
E219 No entry in our register

Names and jobs come from the register of additives permitted in Great Britain, which we have not finished transcribing: a code shown without a name is a gap in our coverage, not a finding that it is unapproved. Naming one is not grading it either. Full detail appears only where we have an assessment against a named authority, so all of this describes our coverage rather than these additives. Most are common and low concern.

Ingredients

covonia chesty cough mixture mentholated relieves the symptoms of chesty coughs and sore throats shake the bottle. take the solution by mouth. adults, the elderly and children over 12 years: take 1 or 2 x 5ml spoonfuls every 4 hours if required. children 5-12 years: take 1 x 5ml spoonful every 4 hours if required. do not give to children under 5 years old unless your doctor tells you to. warning: do not take more medicine than the label tells you to. for do not take this medicine if you: •are an alcoholic. have breathing difficulties. have raised pressure in your head. have heart, liver or kidney problems. are allergic to anything in this medicine. peel where shown for further precautions if symptoms persist or worsen consult your doctor. keep out of the sight and reach of children. active ingredients per 5ml: levomenthol 4mg, squill tincture 0.6ml, liquorice liquid extract 0.125ml. also contains: ethanol, sucrose, glucose, sodium parahydroxybenzoates (e215, e219). alcohol 7vol%. sucrose 1.3g per 5ml. see reverse for full list.

As printed on the pack, in the producer's own order: ingredients are listed by weight, so what comes first is most of what is in it. E numbers link to their assessment where we have one.

Processing level

NOVA group 4: Ultra-processed

Industrial formulations with additives, isolates and ingredients you would not cook with at home. The strongest modern evidence links high intake of these to poorer health outcomes.

Nutrients per 100g

Fat

–

No data

Saturates

Low

Sugars

Low

Salt

–

No data

Judged on the UK FSA front of pack thresholds for solid foods. A dash means the source has no figure, which is not the same as a low one.

Where this came from

Product data from Open Food Facts, which is crowd sourced and can be incomplete or out of date. Photograph from the same source, under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike licence. Our copy is from 17 August 2026: Open Food Facts is checked every night, and a product is rewritten only when its record there has changed, so an older date means the source has not moved rather than that we stopped looking. Something wrong? Correcting it at the source fixes it here and everywhere else that uses the same data. If the problem is one of our additive assessments, tell us.

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