SodaMelt Supplement Facts

Serving size one capsule. Servings per container 30. The dagger is the panel's own footnote and reads “Daily Value (DV) not established”.

A Supplement Facts panel has a fixed grammar. Each row carries a name, an amount per serving and a percentage of a Daily Value where one exists. Ingredients with no established Daily Value take a symbol and a footnote instead, which is what the dagger on the second row is doing.

Underneath the blend row the artwork prints the 11 botanical names in a block of continuous type. Typographically they belong to the blend line above them, which is exactly what the format intends: they are the contents of one row rather than rows of their own.

The panel as it appears on the bottle, at a size where the footnote and the botanical block can both be read. Everything on this page is taken from this image rather than from a seller's summary of it.

Two figures appear nowhere else on the bottle: the 7.5 per cent beside calcium, and the 250 mg beside the blend. Both are worth more attention than they usually get.

Every figure here is arithmetic on the two printed numbers. Nothing is estimated.

One capsule, one serving and one day all being the same thing is a convenience worth noticing. A bottle is a month. Two bottles is the realistic trial window, and it finishes inside the 60-day guarantee with time to post a return.

The bottom rows are there for scale. Seven and a half grams of blend across a whole month sounds larger than 250 mg a day, and it is still less than a single day of the psyllium amount the constipation trials ran at. Spreading a figure across thirty days makes it look bigger without making it bigger.

Calcium at 100 mg with 7.5% beside it is the only place on this bottle where two numbers can be checked against each other. A percentage of a Daily Value is the amount divided by the reference intake, so the panel's own figures imply a reference near 1,333 mg.

That is the arithmetic the panel itself sets up, and it is worth doing once because it is the only row on this label that permits it. Everything else on the panel sits behind a blend total.

Four readings of one row, which is as much as a single panel line will support.

Why calcium carbonate is in a digestion blend at all is a fair question. It is the antacid mineral, and at a few hundred milligrams a tablet it neutralises stomach acid. At 100 mg of elemental calcium it is a nutritional line rather than a neutralising one, and the 2025 short-term absorption work is about uptake rather than about digestive comfort.

The one practical note is the timing. Carbonate dissolves best in an acid stomach, which is why absorption studies give it with food, and the label asks for the capsule 20 to 30 minutes before a meal. The two pull gently in opposite directions and the label is what this site follows.

All 11 of these sit inside the single 250 mg line above.

A proprietary blend is a legal format rather than a loophole. It lets a manufacturer declare a total and keep the recipe, which protects a formulation from being copied off the back of the bottle. An NIH perspective on the format sets out what is traded away in return.

What a reader gets is a ceiling. No single name in that list exceeds 250 mg, because that is the whole line. Divided evenly it would be about 22.7 mg each, and real blends are weighted rather than even, so any particular ingredient sits somewhere between a trace and the ceiling.

The practical consequence runs through the whole site. The ingredients page sets the blend total against the amount each trial used, and the same pattern appears eleven times: the research ran in grams or in colony-forming units, and the panel answers in one shared figure. That repetition is the finding rather than a complaint.

Printed under Other Ingredients on the artwork, in this order.

Four inactives, all ordinary, and the shell is the one that answers a real question. Hypromellose is made from plant cellulose, so this capsule suits a vegetarian diet. The artwork makes no vegan, kosher or halal claim and carries no allergen statement.

Rice flour is worth a second look only because of what it implies about volume. A capsule that needs a bulking agent is not full of active material, and 100 mg of calcium plus 250 mg of blend is 350 mg of declared content in a shell that typically holds rather more.

Read as a whole, the artwork is notable for what it says about the product rather than for what it claims. The bottle carries the name, the panel, the instructions, the caution, the sourcing line, a roundel reading “Powered by Nature” and the federal disclaimer.

The three supports this website names come from the seller's own page rather than from the label, and the benefits page takes each of them apart. The bottle itself makes no structure or function claim at all.

The seller's ingredients graphic illustrates seven botanicals and prints SELECTED FORMULA INGREDIENTS at its foot. The printed panel lists eleven. Four names appear on the bottle and not in the picture: Scabrous Gentian, Goldenseal, Buckthorn and Bentonite.

Two of those four are anthranoid stimulant laxatives. The graphic's own footnote is accurate and the difference is easy to miss, which is why it is stated here once, in the section whose job it is, rather than mentioned on every page.

The panel governs. Where a graphic and a printed panel differ, the bottle is what arrives in the box.

There is a second, quieter difference. The seller's own information page opens with sodium bicarbonate, natron and the history of the digestive biscuit, and no sodium bicarbonate appears anywhere on this panel or in the inactive line. The name of the product follows the story rather than the formula.