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Supplement FactsSodaMelt Supplement Facts: The Panel, Row By Row
The SodaMelt panel is two rows deep. Calcium as calcium carbonate at 100 mg, carrying 7.5% of the Daily Value, and a Proprietary Blend at 250 mg carrying eleven ingredients between them. Serving size is one capsule and a bottle holds 30 servings. The blend row is footnoted Daily Value not established.
The artwork, a transcription of it, and what a proprietary blend declaration is permitted to leave out.
The SodaMelt panel as it is printed
The carton panel and a text transcription of the same nine fields.
| Field | As printed |
|---|---|
| Serving size | 1 capsule |
| Servings per container | 30 |
| Calcium (as Calcium Carbonate) | 100 mg, 7.5% DV |
| Proprietary Blend | 250 mg, Daily Value not established |
| Other ingredients | Rice Flour, Hypromellose (vegetable capsule), Magnesium Stearate (vegetable), Silicon Dioxide |
| Suggested use | As a dietary supplement, take one (1) capsule daily with an 8 oz. glass of water. For best results, take 20-30 minutes before a meal with 8 oz of water or as directed by your healthcare professional. |
| Storage | Store in a cool, dry place away from heat and light. |
| Origin statement | Manufactured in the USA with globally sourced ingredients. |
| Distributor block | SodaMelt, PO Box 12730, Ogden, UT 84412 |
Transcribed from the carton artwork rather than from the distributor's paperwork, which is less complete in six places.
Everything in that table is on the bottle. Nothing has been converted, rounded or restated, and the two figures are the two figures the format requires.
The transcription is here because artwork is an image and an image cannot be searched, quoted by an answer engine or read by a screen reader. A buyer comparing two bottles in a shop wants the text; a buyer checking that this site matches the carton wants the picture. Both are above.
What the SodaMelt blend row does and does not declare
Three things the row declares and two it is allowed to keep.
- Declared: the total weight of the blend, 250 mg per capsule
- Declared: every ingredient in it, by common name, binomial and plant part
- Declared: the order, which under 21 CFR 101.36 is descending by weight
- Left to the formulator: how the 250 mg is divided between the eleven
- Left to the formulator: the CFU count of the bacterial culture at position eleven
A proprietary blend declaration is a real disclosure with one thing withheld. The withheld thing is the split, and the split is what a reader wants most.
What remains is more useful than it first looks. Descending weight order means position one outweighs position two, and so on down to eleven. Combine that with what each ingredient needs to work, and the range narrows quickly: anthranoids act in tens of milligrams (a review of anthranoid laxatives) and psyllium needs more than 10 g (a 2022 meta-analysis of fibre supplementation), so a 250 mg budget has room for the first family and not the second.
That is the entire argument this website makes about amounts, and it is made from the panel rather than around it. The ingredients page runs it row by row.
The calcium row on the SodaMelt panel
The only row on this bottle with a milligram figure of its own.
100 mg of calcium as calcium carbonate, declared at 7.5% of the Daily Value. It is the only ingredient on this bottle with its own figure, and it is a modest amount: a large glass of milk is in the same region.
Calcium carbonate is the cheapest and densest calcium salt and it needs stomach acid to dissolve, which is part of why the label asks for the capsule 20 to 30 minutes before a meal rather than after one. A comparison of calcium formulations sets out how the salts differ (a comparison of calcium formulations).
Its real significance on this label is not nutritional. Calcium carbonate interferes with levothyroxine absorption, and the human study that demonstrated it gave 1,200 mg a day alongside the thyroid tablet (the levothyroxine absorption study). This capsule carries a twelfth of that, and the standard four-hour spacing advice is cheap to follow (a systematic review of levothyroxine interactions, a review of what interferes with thyroxine absorption).
7.5% is what the artwork prints beside the calcium row and it is reproduced here as printed. The federal database that would let this desk check it answers scripted requests with a 403, so the figure is quoted rather than confirmed.
What one bottle of SodaMelt adds up to
Four figures a reader can hold against a research dose without a calculator.
A month of this capsule delivers about 7.5 grams of blend in total. Spread across eleven ingredients, that is roughly 680 mg of each over thirty days if the split were even, which no formulator would do.
Set that against the research amounts and the scale becomes concrete. A psyllium trial asking for more than 10 g a day uses more psyllium in one morning than this bottle contains of everything combined in a fortnight (a 2022 meta-analysis of fibre supplementation). The alfalfa lipid work used 120 g of seeds daily (the alfalfa seed trial), which is sixteen bottles of blend a day.
The arithmetic runs the other way for the anthranoids, and that is the whole reason this capsule does anything at all. A working dose of a stimulant laxative is measured in tens of milligrams, and a month of this bottle has room for that four times over (a survey of anthraquinones in laxative plants).
Per capsule the numbers are small enough to feel abstract. Per bottle they are concrete, and a reader can hold 7.5 g against a trial’s daily dose without doing the multiplication themselves.
The SodaMelt inactive ingredients, and why they are on the page
Four names under the rule, and the one of them worth a second sentence.
| Ingredient | Job in the capsule |
|---|---|
| Rice Flour | Bulks 250 mg of blend up to a capsule's working volume |
| Hypromellose (vegetable capsule) | The shell itself; what makes the capsule suitable without gelatin |
| Magnesium Stearate (vegetable) | Keeps powder from sticking during filling |
| Silicon Dioxide | Anti-caking agent, keeps the powder free-flowing |
Four names printed under the panel on the carton and absent from the distributor paperwork entirely.
None of these is doing anything for a buyer and none of them is unusual. They are reproduced because they are on the bottle and because anyone avoiding gelatin, or checking a capsule against a dietary restriction, needs the shell material named.
Rice flour is worth one extra sentence. A 250 mg blend plus 100 mg of calcium carbonate is a small volume of powder for a capsule that size, so most of what is inside by volume is filler. That is normal formulating, and it is also a quiet confirmation that the blend figure on the panel is what it says it is.
How the SodaMelt panel compares with a fully declared label
Six things a label can tell you, and how many of them this one does.
| What a reader wants | On this panel | On a fully declared label |
|---|---|---|
| The ingredient names | All twelve, with binomials and plant parts | The same |
| The amount of each | One figure for eleven of them | A figure per row |
| The order by weight | Yes, required inside the blend | Implicit in the amounts |
| A CFU count for the culture | Not given | Given, with the strain |
| A % Daily Value | On calcium only | Wherever a Daily Value exists |
| Serving size and count | 1 capsule, 30 servings | The same |
Six rows. This label loses on two of them and matches on four, which is a better showing than the category average this desk reads.
Proprietary blends have a bad reputation and some of it is earned. This one is at the better end: the names are complete, the botany is specific, and the plant parts are stated, which is where a lot of labels get vague.
The two rows it loses on are the two that would let a buyer compare it with a study. That is the trade, it is legal, and it is the reason this website prints trial doses beside label positions rather than pretending the comparison cannot be made at all.
SodaMelt panel questions
Does SodaMelt have a Supplement Facts panel?
Yes. Two rows, two amounts and a footnote, plus a separate list of four inactive ingredients underneath. The artwork is reproduced at the top of this page.
How much of each herb does the SodaMelt panel declare?
The panel gives one figure, 250 mg, for all eleven together. What it gives per ingredient is the position in the weight order, which is descending as the regulation requires.
What does the double asterisk on the SodaMelt blend row mean?
It points to the label’s own footnote, which reads Daily Value not established. That is a statement about the reference standard, not about the ingredient.
Is a proprietary blend allowed on a SodaMelt label?
Yes. 21 CFR 101.36 permits a blend total in place of individual amounts, provided the ingredients are listed in descending order of weight. That order is the useful part.
Does the SodaMelt artwork match the SodaMelt paperwork?
The twelve names agree exactly. The artwork adds the inactive ingredients, the binomials, the plant parts, the water and meal instructions, the caution paragraph and the distributor block, all of which the paperwork leaves out.
Who publishes this SodaMelt website?
- van Gorkom BA, de Vries EG, Karrenbeld A, et al. Review article: anthranoid laxatives and their potential carcinogenic effects. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 1999;13(4):443-52. PMID 10215727. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10215727/
- van der Schoot A, Drysdale C, Whelan K, et al. The Effect of Fiber Supplementation on Chronic Constipation in Adults: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Am J Clin Nutr. 2022;116(4):953-969. PMID 35816465. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35816465/
- Zamfirescu I, Carlson HE. Absorption of levothyroxine when coadministered with various calcium formulations. Thyroid. 2011;21(5):483-6. PMID 21595516. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21595516/
- Singh N, Singh PN, Hershman JM. Effect of calcium carbonate on the absorption of levothyroxine. JAMA. 2000;283(21):2822-5. PMID 10838651. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10838651/
- Wiesner A, Gajewska D, Paśko P. Levothyroxine Interactions with Food and Dietary Supplements - A Systematic Review. Pharmaceuticals (Basel). 2021;14(3):206. PMID 33801406. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33801406/
- Liwanpo L, Hershman JM. Conditions and drugs interfering with thyroxine absorption. Best Pract Res Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2009;23(6):781-92. PMID 19942153. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19942153/
- Mitelmão FCR, Höckel K, Bergamaschi CC, et al. The effect of probiotics on functional constipation in adults: A randomized, double-blind controlled trial. Medicine (Baltimore). 2022;101(43):e31185. PMID 36316826. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36316826/
Order SodaMelt with the panel transcribed
Two rows, twelve names, one weight order and four inactive ingredients. Everything the carton prints is on this page, and 60 days runs from the purchase date.
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