Daily nutrition for the kids you see every dayin the water bottle they already carry.

Lemonade · Fruit Punch · Power Pack. Tap any panel to open it full size.

Why each ingredient is in there

• Cassava-root soluble fiber — a resistant dextrin. The bulk of the fiber, glycemically neutral, survives heat.
• Partially hydrolyzed guar fiber (PHGG) — the clinically studied half of the fiber stack, including pediatric functional-GI trials. Ferments at a different rate than the dextrin.
• Citric acid — the tartness kids expect from lemonade, and a mineral chelator.
• Calcium lactate and calcium gluconate — POWCHEE’s calcium: fully soluble and taste-neutral; in supplier adult data, absorbed comparably to milk calcium with or without a meal.
• Liposomal premix — the 11 water-soluble vitamins and minerals, in these forms:
  • Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
  • B1 · thiamine
  • B3 · niacin
  • B5 · pantothenic acid
  • B6 · pyridoxine
  • B7 · biotin
  • B9 · methylfolate
  • B12 · cobalamin
  • Zinc · zinc gluconate
  • Selenium · selenomethionine
  • Iodine · potassium iodide
• A·D·E·K blend — self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery system (SNEDDS); forms nanoemulsion droplets typically under 100 nm in the gut, designed to absorb without relying on dietary fat.
• Natural flavors — lemon in Lemonade; orange, strawberry and citrus in Fruit Punch.
• Carrot and blackcurrant concentrate — Fruit Punch only. The color, from plants.
• L-malic acid — Fruit Punch only. A rounder, fruitier tartness alongside the citric acid.
• Potassium citrate and sea salt — electrolytes; the salt also suppresses bitterness.
• Reb A and Reb M stevia blend — declared on the panel as steviol glycosides. The sweetener system. Nothing synthetic.

Reading the carbohydrate line

On Lemonade and Fruit Punch the carbohydrate line is mostly dietary fiber. Lemonade declares 4 g carbohydrate and Fruit Punch 3 g; in both, 3 g is fiber and 0 g is sugar. No maltodextrin, no starch carrier. Fiber counts at roughly 2 cal/g rather than 4, which is why a full stick declares just 10 calories.

The Power Pack reads differently because of rounding: FDA rounds total carbohydrate to the nearest gram, while fiber under 1 g must be declared as “<1 g.” Same material, two rounding rules — and it still declares 0 calories.

There is no sugar in POWCHEE. All three panels declare 0 g total sugars and 0 g added sugars — the sweetness comes from a Reb A and Reb M stevia blend.

AAT™ is our plain-language name for how the vitamins are delivered. Most parents have never heard the word “liposomal,” and they aren’t searching for it — so we put one simple name on the carton for two established delivery systems: liposomal encapsulation and self-nanoemulsifying delivery. Published research on these formats has generally shown higher bioavailability than standard forms of the same nutrients, and AAT™ is how we signal that. To be clear about what it isn’t: AAT™ is not a patent or a proprietary discovery, and POWCHEE itself has not been clinically studied.

System one — a phospholipid (liposomal) premix carrying vitamin C, most of the B's, zinc, selenium and iodine. Our supplier characterizes this premix as liposomal, and that's the basis on which we use the word. Whether it forms true bilayer vesicles or a phospholipid complex is a question for the analytical file, which is supplier-held — we have not run cryo-TEM, DLS or encapsulation-efficiency assays ourselves and we don't claim to have.

System two — a self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery system (SNEDDS) for A, D, E and K. Liposomes are built around a water core; fat-soluble vitamins need an oil phase, so this fraction uses an oil-and-surfactant matrix that self-assembles into nanoemulsion droplets typically under 100 nm in the gut. It is not a liposome and we don't call it one — but it is designed for the same job: protect the nutrient and support absorption without a fatty meal.

Both live in the POWCHEE Pack™ blend — the same blend in all three SKUs. It reaches us already encapsulated, so nothing on our line strips it.

What we don't claim. The published human PK evidence for liposomal delivery is real but nutrient-specific, dose-dependent and adult — strongest for vitamin C; thin for zinc and B3; absent for B12 (the one comparison found no liposomal advantage), selenium and iodine. For A·D·E·K, human data exist for related lipid formats, not for SNEDDS itself. None of it is a study of POWCHEE.

Twelve nutrients at 20% DV per stick — a real daily contribution, not a megadose. POWCHEE is a drink mix for ages 3 and up, so we checked every nutrient against the upper intake limits for the youngest kids who’ll drink it: the ages 1–3 bracket a three-year-old falls into.

Where the limits come from: FDA doesn’t set upper limits itself. The U.S. upper limits are part of the Dietary Reference Intakes — the same National Academies standards FDA uses to set the Daily Values on every Nutrition Facts panel.

Two sticks a day vs. the ages 1–3 upper limit

The short version. At two sticks a day, every nutrient stays comfortably under its limit for a three-year-old. Vitamin A is the closest, at 60% before food, because the toddler limit for preformed vitamin A is low — for a school-age child the same two sticks are well under half. Folate’s figure is a worst case: that limit applies to folic acid, and we use methylfolate. Six nutrients on the panel have no upper limit at all, and there’s no iron, by design.

Our panels show %DV for both ages 1–3 and ages 4+, so you can read whichever applies.

The 3 g is two fibers. Partially hydrolyzed guar gum (PHGG) has a large published clinical literature, including trials in children with functional GI complaints. Our cassava-root soluble fiber is a resistant dextrin: the resistant form, not maltodextrin and not ordinary dextrin, which are digestible starches and count as carbohydrate.

Two separate FDA determinations cover the resistant dextrin, and they answer different questions. On safety, its use is the subject of a GRAS notice to which FDA responded with no questions. On labeling, resistant dextrin is among the non-digestible carbohydrates FDA has determined may be counted toward the Dietary Fiber declaration — so the 3 g on our panel is declarable dietary fiber, not a carbohydrate we've relabeled. We keep those two findings separate because one does not imply the other.

What the supplier file shows

• In healthy adults, tolerated at 10–50 g single doses. A university dose-escalation RCT (supplier-held, unpublished): GI symptoms stayed mild, did not differ from placebo (p = 0.38) and did not climb with dose. A POWCHEE stick carries 2 g of this fiber. No tolerability trial has been run in children at any dose.
• It behaves like fiber, not carbohydrate. 20 g produced no postprandial glucose rise versus water in a controlled crossover trial in healthy adults (supplier-held, unpublished), while 20 g of dextrose produced a full glycemic response.
• It survives heat. In a supplier lab report (unpublished), fiber content measured identical before and after pasteurization at 163 °F in a low-pH beverage — which is why the Power Pack still delivers in hot oatmeal.

In the supplier’s adult study, it absorbed like milk calcium. In that human bioavailability study (1999), fractional calcium absorption from calcium lactate gluconate measured about 32%, against about 29.5% for milk in the same Western-breakfast protocol — effectively the same. Plain calcium lactate matched it at about 31.6%.

In the same study, a meal made no difference. Absorption held across diets — roughly 31% with a European breakfast and 30% with an Asian breakfast — and ran higher fasting, around 45%. If that holds in children — which has not been tested — it suits a drink sipped at 10 a.m. rather than at the table.

What that study is, and isn't. A supplier-held human study dosed at 200 mg calcium per day, in adults, and not published. We cite it as ingredient-level adult bioavailability for the salt, and we don't convert it into a pediatric absorption claim.

Why the salt matters. Calcium has to be in solution to be absorbed. Carbonate, the most common form, depends on stomach acid and a meal to dissolve. Ours is already dissolved — roughly 400 g/L in cold water, against about 0.9 g/L for calcium citrate — and in taste panels it scored lowest for grittiness. That’s why most drink mixes skip calcium, and why ours can carry 10% DV.

What’s in it. A Reb A and Reb M stevia blend, used at the lowest level that makes 3 g of fiber and a full vitamin and mineral load taste good to a kid. 0 g sugar, and no aspartame, sucralose, acesulfame-K or saccharin.

Regulatory standing. High-purity steviol glycosides (≥95%) are GRAS in the U.S. JECFA and EFSA set an acceptable daily intake of 4 mg/kg body weight per day, and EFSA found them neither genotoxic nor carcinogenic.

Where it fits in a kid’s day. For a lot of kids, the daily drink is a juice box or flavored drink carrying 12–16 g of sugar. POWCHEE swaps that for 0 g sugar plus fiber, vitamins and minerals. And kids who already drink plain water usually still have a gap on the plate — most children fall short on fruits, vegetables and fiber. For them, the unflavored Power Pack stirs into foods they already eat, like mac and cheese or yogurt.

For your judgment. WHO’s 2023 guideline advises against using non-sugar sweeteners as a tool for weight control or chronic-disease prevention, and the AAP notes that long-term pediatric data on them are limited. POWCHEE’s sweetener isn’t there for weight control — it’s there so a child will actually drink the nutrition. Whether that fits a given child is your call; steviol-equivalent content per stick is in the formulation file.

Why add vitamins to a drink mix at all. FDA’s fortification policy (21 CFR 104.20) discourages adding nutrients to foods like candy and soda, where fortification can make a poor choice look healthy. POWCHEE goes the other way: it takes the drink a kid already has every day — often a juice box or flavored drink — and replaces it with one that has 0 g sugar and adds the nutrients most kids fall short on. Our position paper walks through the policy point by point, and it’s yours on request.

Why 3 g of fiber, and not more. Fiber is where kids are furthest behind, so it’s tempting to put a bigger number on the box. But a big jump in fiber is also the most common reason kids get gassy or bloated and stop drinking it. So we kept it to 3 g per stick — about a quarter of a young child’s daily target — and split it across two gentle, soluble fibers (PHGG and a cassava-root fiber) instead of one high dose. For a child new to fiber, half a stick for the first week is an easy way in.