Ingredients

SodaMelt Ingredients: Every Name Printed On The Bottle

SodaMelt prints two amounts and twelve names. Calcium carbonate carries 100 mg of its own. The other eleven, oat straw through Lactobacillus acidophilus, share a single 250 mg proprietary blend, set out in descending order of weight. Four of those eleven are anthranoid stimulant laxatives, and at 250 mg divided eleven ways they are the only members that weight can plausibly reach.

The full list as the bottle prints it, the order that list is in, and what that order tells a buyer that the missing milligrams do not.

The two rows

What is actually printed on the SodaMelt panel?

Before the botany, the arithmetic a buyer is working with.

Row	Amount	% Daily Value
Calcium (as Calcium Carbonate)	100 mg	7.5%
Proprietary Blend	250 mg	None established

Serving size 1 capsule. Servings per container 30. The blend row carries the label’s own footnote, which reads: Daily Value (DV) not established.

Two rows, two figures. Calcium is declared on its own line at 100 mg and carries the label’s own 7.5% Daily Value. Everything else on this bottle sits behind the words Proprietary Blend and a single 250 mg total.

Eleven botanicals and one bacterium live inside that second figure. A reader who wants to know how much psyllium husk a capsule holds will not find it here, on the seller’s page, or in the batch paperwork, because the blend total is the only number the format requires.

That is legal and ordinary. It is also the reason this page is arranged the way it is: the names come first, the order comes second, and the panel page carries the artwork itself for anyone who wants to read the printing rather than a transcription of it.

The blend, in order

The eleven SodaMelt botanicals in the order the label sets them

Eleven names, eleven positions, and the two places where the plant part changes the answer entirely.

Position	Name	Botany and plant part	What kind of ingredient it is
1	Oat	Avena sativa, straw	Cereal plant part
2	Alfalfa	Medicago sativa, herb	Forage herb
3	Psyllium	Plantago ovata, husk	Bulk fibre
4	Chinese Rhubarb	Rheum palmatum, root	Anthranoid stimulant laxative
5	Scabrous Gentian	Gentiana scabra Bge, root	Bitter root
6	Aloe Vera	Aloe barbadensis, leaf	Anthranoid stimulant laxative
7	Cascara Sagrada	Rhamnus purshiana, bark	Anthranoid stimulant laxative
8	Goldenseal	Hydrastis canadensis, root	Berberine-bearing root
9	Buckthorn	Rhamnus cathartica, bark	Anthranoid stimulant laxative
10	Bentonite	mineral clay	Adsorbent clay
11	Lactobacillus acidophilus	bacterial culture	Live culture, no CFU declared

Descending by weight is the order 21 CFR 101.36 requires inside a proprietary blend, so position 1 is the heaviest and position 11 the lightest.

Position is the quantitative fact this label gives away for free. Oat straw outweighs alfalfa herb, alfalfa outweighs psyllium husk, and Lactobacillus acidophilus is the lightest thing in the capsule. None of that tells a reader a milligram figure, and all of it narrows the range each ingredient can be in.

Positions four, six, seven and nine are the interesting ones. Chinese rhubarb root, aloe vera leaf, cascara sagrada bark and buckthorn bark are all anthranoid laxatives, and anthranoids are the one family on this list that works in tens of milligrams rather than grams (a review of anthranoid laxatives). They sit in the middle of the order, which is where a functional dose of them would sit.

The plant part matters as much as the plant. Aloe vera leaf is not aloe vera gel, and the difference is the latex layer between the two (NCCIH sets out the distinction). Oat straw is not oat bran, which is where every beta-glucan result in the literature comes from (a meta-analysis of oat beta-glucan).

Honest dosage analysis

Which SodaMelt ingredients can 250 mg realistically reach?

The label position beside the amount the published research used, row by row.

Ingredient

What the label gives it

What the research used, and where that figure comes from

Psyllium (husk)

3rd of 11 in a 250 mg blend

more than 10 g a day, for 4 weeks or more (a 2022 meta-analysis of fibre supplementation)

Alfalfa (herb)

2nd of 11 in a 250 mg blend

40 g of seeds three times a day, 120 g a day (the alfalfa seed trial)

Oat (straw)

1st of 11 in a 250 mg blend

3 g a day of beta-glucan, from oat bran not straw (a meta-analysis of oat beta-glucan)

Goldenseal (root)

8th of 11 in a 250 mg blend

about 3 g a day in the small studies that exist (NCCIH)

Lactobacillus acidophilus

11th of 11, no CFU declared

3 to 8 billion CFU a day (a randomised trial of probiotic sachets)

Calcium (carbonate)

100 mg, 7.5% DV as printed

1,200 mg a day, swallowed with the levothyroxine, for 3 months (the levothyroxine absorption study)

Six rows, and five of them come out the same way. Psyllium relieves constipation above 10 g a day (a 2022 meta-analysis of fibre supplementation). The alfalfa cholesterol result used 120 g of prepared seeds daily (the alfalfa seed trial). Oat beta-glucan works at 3 g (a meta-analysis of oat beta-glucan). Goldenseal has been given at roughly 3 g (NCCIH). Every one of those single doses is larger than the whole blend, and the blend is carrying eleven things at once.

The sixth row is the exception and it is why this capsule is not inert. Anthranoid glycosides are active in the tens of milligrams. A 250 mg blend with four anthranoid members near the middle of its weight order can comfortably hold a working amount of them (a survey of anthraquinones in laxative plants).

Read the two together and the picture is consistent rather than contradictory. The ingredients a buyer recognises from the front of the bottle are present at amounts no trial has tested. The ingredients a buyer may not recognise are the ones doing the work, and they are the reason the safety page is longer than it would otherwise be.

One number does the arguing here

250 mg is roughly a quarter of a gram, shared by eleven ingredients. Even an even split gives each one about 23 mg. An even split is not what a formulator does, which is exactly why the order on the panel is worth reading closely.

The anthranoid group

The four laxative herbs inside SodaMelt

Positions four, six, seven and nine, and the family they all belong to.

Chinese Rhubarb

Rheum palmatum, root4th of 11 by weight

The heaviest of the four. Rhubarb root carries sennoside-type anthraquinone glycosides that pass the small intestine intact and are cleaved by colonic bacteria into the active compound (a review of anthranoid laxatives). That bacterial step is why nothing happens for hours and then does.

Its position at fourth of eleven puts it above psyllium’s neighbours in the weight order and below the two bulk plant materials at the top.

Aloe Vera

Aloe barbadensis, leaf6th of 11 by weight

Leaf, not gel. The bitter yellow latex under the leaf skin carries aloin, and it is aloin rather than the inner gel that acts as a laxative (NCCIH). The National Toxicology Program fed whole-leaf extract to rats and reported intestinal tumours at the doses it used (the National Toxicology Program's rat study); the full technical report is worth reading before anyone dismisses the distinction as pedantry (the full NTP technical report).

Aloe latex was removed from the United States over-the-counter laxative monograph in 2002, which NCCIH states directly. This desk could not get the equivalent confirmation for cascara from the federal register in the same session, so that half of the story is left unwritten rather than repeated from memory.

Cascara Sagrada

Rhamnus purshiana, bark7th of 11 by weight

The bark a pharmacist would have recognised on sight fifty years ago. Cascara glycosides stimulate colonic motility in the same way the other three do, and a rat-colon assay puts its potency in the same band as senna (a rat-colon assay of senna and cascara glycosides).

One case report in the American Journal of Gastroenterology describes liver injury after cascara use (a case report of cascara sagrada liver injury). It is a case report and it is described here as one, not as a literature.

Buckthorn

Rhamnus cathartica, bark9th of 11 by weight

Cascara’s close relative, and the lightest of the four. Buckthorn bark carries emodin, and a toxicity assessment of the bark and its emodin content is the paper to read on it (a toxicity assessment of buckthorn bark and emodin).

A structure-activity comparison of anthranoids shows why the four behave so similarly in the gut and so differently on a chromatogram (a structure-activity comparison of anthranoids).

Grouping them is not an editorial flourish. Four ingredients drawn from the same chemical family, all present in one capsule, add up rather than divide, and the effect a buyer notices is the sum of the four rather than any one of them.

A prospective colonoscopy study links long-running anthranoid use with melanosis coli, a harmless brown pigmentation of the colonic lining (a prospective colonoscopy study, a study of melanosis coli at colonoscopy). It reverses when the laxative stops. It is also the clearest physical evidence that these compounds reach the colon and act there, which is the point being made.

The rest of the blend

The other seven SodaMelt blend members, one at a time

Two cereal and forage plants, a fibre, a bitter, a berberine root, a clay and a bacterium.

Oat

Avena sativa, straw1st of 11 by weight

The heaviest thing in the blend, and the one whose reputation belongs to a different part of the plant. Beta-glucan, the fibre with the cholesterol and glycaemic literature behind it, is concentrated in the bran (a systematic review of oat beta-glucan and LDL). Straw is the stem. No human trial of oat straw at any dose turned up in this desk’s search, so nothing is claimed for it here.

Alfalfa

Medicago sativa, herb2nd of 11 by weight

Second by weight. The lipid work on alfalfa used 40 g of heat-prepared seeds three times a day (the alfalfa seed trial, an earlier study of alfalfa seeds), which is a food portion rather than a supplement dose. The alfalfa fact that matters at this scale is L-canavanine and the lupus-like syndrome described in the literature (the L-canavanine finding), and that belongs on the safety page.

Psyllium

Plantago ovata, husk3rd of 11 by weight

The best-evidenced ingredient on the label and the one least likely to be present at a working amount. Psyllium is a gel-forming soluble fibre; it holds water, softens stool and adds bulk, and the trials that show it doing so used more than 10 g a day for four weeks or longer (a 2022 meta-analysis of fibre supplementation, a dose-response meta-analysis). Third of eleven inside 250 mg is a fraction of one per cent of that.

It earns its place on the label anyway, because it is what a buyer expects a digestion capsule to contain. The psyllium post works through the arithmetic in full.

Scabrous Gentian

Gentiana scabra Bge, root5th of 11 by weight

A classical bitter. Gentian root and its marker compound gentiopicroside have a pharmacology literature (a review of Gentianae Radix, a review of gentiopicroside) and, as far as this desk could establish, no randomised human trial for digestion. Cited as chemistry, never as evidence of an effect in people.

Goldenseal

Hydrastis canadensis, root8th of 11 by weight

The row with the clearest medicine interaction on the whole label. Goldenseal inhibits CYP3A4 and CYP2D6 in humans (a study of goldenseal and human cytochrome P450, the goldenseal-midazolam interaction study), which changes how the liver clears a long list of prescription drugs, and NCCIH reports metformin levels falling by about a quarter (NCCIH).

The P-glycoprotein story everyone repeats is weaker than the CYP one: a human digoxin study found no significant effect (a human digoxin study that found no effect). Anyone on a prescription should raise this capsule by name rather than as a supplement in general (a systematic review of herbal drug interactions).

Bentonite

10th of 11 by weight

An aluminium silicate clay. Pharmaceutically it is an adsorbent and a delivery excipient (a review of bentonite in drug delivery), which makes it an absorption question for anything else swallowed at the same time rather than a health claim in its own right. It is another argument for spacing this capsule away from medicines.

Lactobacillus acidophilus

11th of 11, no CFU declared

Last by weight and the only member whose useful unit is not milligrams at all. Probiotic trials count colony-forming units, and the ones with results behind them used 3 to 8 billion CFU a day (a randomised trial of probiotic sachets, a controlled study using L. acidophilus NCFM). This panel declares no CFU figure, so the amount is not knowable from the label and nothing is asserted about it.

Capsule and carriers

What else is inside a SodaMelt capsule?

Four names below the panel that hold the capsule together.

Rice Flour
Hypromellose (vegetable capsule)
Magnesium Stearate (vegetable)
Silicon Dioxide

Rice flour is the filler that brings a 250 mg blend up to a capsule’s working volume. Hypromellose is the vegetable shell, which is what makes this capsule suitable for anyone avoiding gelatin. Magnesium stearate and silicon dioxide keep the powder moving through a filling machine without caking.

None of the four is an active and none is unusual. They are listed here because they are printed on the bottle and because the vendor paperwork this desk works from never mentioned them, which is worth a reader knowing when they compare the two documents.

Paperwork versus bottle

Where the SodaMelt paperwork and the SodaMelt bottle disagree

Six rows where reading the artwork gave a different answer from reading the file.

What	In the distributor paperwork	On the printed bottle
Shape of the list	Twelve ingredients as a flat list	Two rows: calcium at 100 mg, and eleven ingredients sharing one 250 mg blend
Inactive ingredients	None given	Rice flour, hypromellose (the vegetable capsule), magnesium stearate, silicon dioxide
Botany	Common names only	Binomials and plant parts, including Rhamnus purshiana bark and Rheum palmatum root
Dosing detail	One capsule daily	One capsule daily with an 8 oz glass of water, 20 to 30 minutes before a meal
Caution	Nothing	A full caution paragraph, a storage line, and the manufacture statement
Addresses	New York office and returns	Distributor block reads PO Box 12730, Ogden, UT 84412

Six differences, none of them a contradiction. The bottle is more complete everywhere the two diverge, so the bottle is what this website prints.

The twelve names agree exactly between the two documents. What the paperwork leaves out is the shape of the list, and the shape is the part that changes what a buyer should expect: twelve separate entries reads as twelve measured ingredients, and that is not what the panel shows.

The two addresses look like a conflict and are not. The bottle’s distributor block reads SodaMelt, PO Box 12730, Ogden, UT 84412. The New York office and returns addresses in the footer belong to this retail desk. Both are accurate, they describe different companies, and the about page says which does what.

Questions

SodaMelt ingredient questions

How many ingredients does SodaMelt have?

Twelve a reader can name: calcium carbonate on its own row, and eleven inside the 250 mg blend. The panel prints two amounts, so twelve names and two figures is the accurate way to describe it.

How much psyllium husk is in SodaMelt?

The bottle does not divide the blend, so no milligram figure exists for psyllium or for any of the other ten. What the label gives is the position: psyllium is third of eleven by weight inside 250 mg.

Is the SodaMelt blend a laxative formula?

Four of the eleven are anthranoid stimulant laxatives, and they are the members a 250 mg budget can plausibly reach. That is the honest reading of the weight order, and it is why this desk treats the capsule as a short course.

Is SodaMelt vegetarian?

The shell is hypromellose, a vegetable capsule, and the magnesium stearate is declared as vegetable on the bottle. The blend is botanical apart from the bacterial culture at position eleven.

Does SodaMelt contain gluten, dairy or soy?

The bottle carries no allergen statement of any kind and none of the four inactive ingredients is a common allergen. Oat straw is a cereal plant part, so anyone avoiding oats for coeliac reasons should treat it as an oat.

Why does SodaMelt list aloe vera leaf rather than aloe vera?

Because the plant part is the whole story. Leaf brings the latex layer and its aloin; the inner gel does not. NCCIH sets out the difference, and the laxative activity belongs to the latex.

About this review

Who publishes this SodaMelt website?

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Written and reviewed by the SodaMelt Team at Mysodamelt

We write these pages from the SodaMelt label artwork and the distributor’s own batch paperwork. This panel prints two amounts and eleven ingredients, so rather than guess how the 250 mg is divided we print the amount each published trial used beside the ingredient it studied, and we say which of the eleven that amount can plausibly reach. Corrections go onto the page itself and move the review date forward. Write to [email protected]. Last reviewed September 2026.

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