Explain Like I'm Five

Imo some of the liquid IVs taste sweet enough, and some like golden cherry are even a touch sour, I love the taste of the ones I've had so far (which is only the aforementioned and the passion fruit one.) They do have Stevia leaf extract though. Honestly the bottled pedialyte is almost too sweet for me, and the powdered stuff is ok but for taste alone I definitely prefer the liquid 4. For hydration I'm still curious but I don't have any pedialyte powder to compare ratios, though I do have an old bottle of the pre-bottled one, and that seems to have similar proportions of Na and K.

Actually, pedialyte seems to be 16% Na and 6% K per serving, opposed to liqvid IV's 22% Na and 8% K. Buuuut if you drink the whole bottle, the pedialyte is 45% Na and 15% K.

Not sure I understand how the percentage of what is suspended in the liquid changes assuming that the solution is well mixed (I'd expect it to still be the same percentage, as no ingredients are added or removed beyond the total quantity of the solution as a whole), but whatever.

Seems a whole bottle of pedialyte is equivalent to 2.1125 liquid IV, which means that the liquid IV equivalent would be 47.35mg more Na and 22.75mg more K.

My amateur science ~~degree~~ allows me to now say with confidence liquid I.V. is better.