Anyone used to get a spoonful of malt extract as a kid?

[HighlandWorrier]

Spotted a jar in Holland and Barratt today and it reminded me my dad used to give us kids a spoonful a day. Not sure why? 🤔 Anyone else get given this and know what it was supposed to be used for? I almost bought a jar but decided it probably wouldn't taste how I remembered it

Yes, malt extract, cod liver oil, Lucozade for medicinal purposes, junior aspirin. There was some horrid sticky green stuff for chilblains, Vick on your chest. Yuck.

I used to have it as well, tasted lovely.

Virol, yes, loved it!

Ooh yes, loved it! Cod Liver Oil did taste terrible at first but got better as time went on.

Loved the malt extract, just to clarify. Not so keen on the cod liver oil but it did get better.

What did it taste like?

My mum had brewers' yeast tablets and we used to have fluoride tablets, which were ok.

Virol, Minadex and Haliborange for me. I liked them all.

We got the cod liver oil, then a spoonful of the malt to take the taste away.

Brewer's Yeast tablets, Minadex and Rose Hip syrup. I loved them all!

Only when my Dad was doing his homebrew. And usually only then because I was hanging around like a beggar...

when poorly (colds/fever) we were given a tonic that tasted very metallic.

Yes, loathed it. Brother liked it, though. Then we got vit b tablets instead - becosin forte or something along those lines. Anyone remember the concentrated orange juice?

Oh god... I remember my mum left a jar of this in my baby brother's room and my sister and I decided to decorate his floor and walls and cot with it

Oh my goodness I loved it! It still tastes as good but now I have no self control and would eat the whole jar at once if I bought one so I stay away.

Virol, which me and my sisters loved, and cod liver oil capsules, which we didn't.
My Mum would often find a squashed capsule under the kitchen table, we always blamed each other.
And lucozade with the orange crinkly cellophane which I used to love looking through. It tasted different then and you only got it if you were ill, never any other time.
Cow and gate milk in the 70's. I used to sneak a scoop when I was supposed to be making a bottle for my little brother, Delrosa rose hip syrup and the orange juice you got from the baby clinic.

My dear departed Nan’s favourite anecdote about my dad (born 1953) as a child was his love of Virol, which he would pronounce as “Birol”.

I’ve literally never heard anyone else talk about it before

My mum used to line us kids up in the kitchen every morning for a spoonful of cod liver oil before we sat down for breakfast.
On a Friday night before bed it was a spoonful of castor oil ' to keep you regular '
Don't ever mention that you've got tummy ache or the milk of magnesium came out. Kaolin and morph if that didn't work.

My mum hated us, I swear. 😭

Oh god, I hated Virol with a passion! My mother gave up after I hid every time she produced the bottle.
I was a sickly thin child so the doctor suggested I drank a pint of milk a day (in addition to any other milk I may have consumed). I was quite happy with that, along with haliborange, and my body weight in sweets if I'd been allowed.

We used to have Minadex which I hated! 😆

The neon yellow stuff we got was called Radiemulsion or Radiomulsion.
What was in it ??????

I too remember being given malt extract on a teaspoon. My mum also lined us kids up to dose us all. She then used to give a teaspoonful to the cat too.
Anyone else remember marzine tablets for travel sickness? They came in green black and white stripy tubes, maybe they're still made? If you didn't feel sick in the car on the way to Grans, you certainly felt sick after taking a marzine, ewww!

She then used to give a teaspoonful to the cat too.

I love this, it creates a delightful mental image

Waiting for this thread to go Virol

I used to love it along with the juice from the health clinic, haliborange and gripe water.
In fact, as a child I was a very, very fussy eater and often survived on milk and Virol.

The juice from the health clinic must be what I’m remembering. It was a treat in our 70s childhood, we were easily pleased!

Haha enjoying the comments glad others remember it too 😊