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Flavor Aid drink mix, by the stick

Flavor Aid by the stick: pick a flavor, fill the pitcher

A Pitcher Packs stick makes 2 quarts, and you add the sugar. A Singles To Go stick is sugar free and fits a water bottle. Tap a stick for its box and today's price.

Pitcher Packs · unsweetened

Cherry Cereza

  • Makes 2 quarts a stick
  • You add 3/4 to 1 cup of sugar
  • Colored with Red 40

$17.9872 sticks · 12.5¢ a quart

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A glass pitcher of red Flavor Aid Cherry over ice beside a Pitcher Packs carton

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Pitcher or bottle

Two ways to drink Flavor Aid

Red Flavor Aid poured from a glass pitcher into a tumbler, Pitcher Packs cartons on the counter

Unsweetened stick for a 2-quart pitcher

By the pitcher

One Pitcher Packs stick, 2 quarts of cold water and your own sugar. The carton asks for 3/4 to 1 cup, sweetened to taste.

  1. Empty the contents of one stick into a plastic or glass pitcher.
  2. Add 2 quarts (8 cups) of cold water and 3/4 to 1 cup of sugar, sweetened to taste.
  3. Stir to dissolve, then serve over ice.

Flavor Aid Pitcher Packs

A Flavor Aid Cucumber Limeaid stick poured into a glass of ice water

Sugar-free stick for a 16.9 fl oz bottle

By the bottle

One Singles To Go stick in a 16.9 fl oz bottle of water. There is no sugar to measure: each stick carries 5 calories and its own sweetener.

  1. Sip from a full bottle of water to make room for the powder.
  2. Pour one stick into a 16.9 fl oz bottle or a large glass of water. A 20 fl oz bottle gives a milder drink.
  3. Shake the bottle or stir well until the powder dissolves.

Flavor Aid Singles To Go

  • 2 qtfrom one Pitcher Packs stick
  • 144 qtfrom a 72-stick case, or 36 gallons
  • 5 calin one Singles To Go stick
  • 3.1¢of mix in an 8 fl oz glass, at the lowest

From today's prices

What the mix in a glass costs

An 8 fl oz glass, worked out from the box price. For Pitcher Packs the figure is the mix alone, before your sugar.

  • Grape Pitcher Packs3.1¢
  • Tropical Punch Pitcher Packs3.1¢
  • Cherry Pitcher Packs3.1¢
  • Singles To Go Aguas Frescas Variety Pack9.4¢
  • Singles To Go Aguas Frescas Variety Pack, 2 Boxes9.5¢
  • Singles To Go Cucumber Limeaid9.8¢

Your sugar, your call

Sugar in the pitcher, glass by glass

The carton asks for 3/4 to 1 cup of sugar in 2 quarts. That puts 19 to 25 grams in an 8 fl oz glass, or 73 to 97 calories. Use less and the drink turns tart, not thin.

3/4 cup in the pitcher

19 g of sugar a glass

73 calories · 38% of the Daily Value

1 cup in the pitcher

25 g of sugar a glass

97 calories · 50% of the Daily Value

How to mix a pitcher

About the brand

Flavor Aid, a stick at a time

A drink mix from 1932

Flavor Aid is the drink mix of The Jel Sert Company of West Chicago, Illinois. Federal trademark records put the name in commerce on May 2, 1932, first spelled Fla-Vor-Ade.

The idea is plain: a small packet of flavor, a pitcher of cold water and sugar from your own pantry.

Jel Sert still makes it, alongside its freezer pops, and prints West Chicago, Illinois on every box.

By the end of the decade, we introduced our take on the trend with the Flavor-Aid line of drink mixes.

From paper packet to stick

The Pitcher Packs carton prints it across the top: same great flavors, now in a stick. A carton holds 6 sticks and each stick flavors 2 quarts.

The Flavor Aid lineup sold here comes by the case of 12 cartons. That is 144 quarts of Cherry, Grape or Tropical Punch, or 36 gallons.

A hand lifting a stick from a Flavor Aid Pitcher Packs carton

Seven flavors, seven colors

Each flavor wears its color. Cherry is red, Grape is purple, and Tropical Punch comes in a sky-blue carton and pours red. The aguas frescas sticks run pink, green, orange and deep red.

The color tells you the flavor before you read the name. That helps when four kinds of stick share one box.

CherryGrapeTropical PunchCucumber LimeaidMangoStrawberry WatermelonJamaica

All Flavor Aid flavors

Unsweetened means you hold the spoon

A Pitcher Packs stick brings flavor, color and vitamin C, and no sweetener. The directions ask for 3/4 to 1 cup of sugar, or a no-calorie sweetener for a low-calorie pitcher.

Buyers use that freedom. One writes of 5 teaspoons of sugar in 2 quarts, another of stevia in a full gallon.

Aguas frescas for the water bottle

Singles To Go carry four aguas frescas flavors: Strawberry Watermelon, Cucumber Limeaid, Mango and Jamaica, the hibiscus one. Each stick is sugar free and holds 5 calories.

The sticks sweeten with aspartame and acesulfame potassium, so the box prints a notice for people with phenylketonuria.

A buyer who drinks them daily writes that a couple of shakes in a 16 oz bottle is all it takes.

Glasses of Flavor Aid Cucumber Limeaid over ice beside the box

What the boxes print

The numbers come off the boxes. A Pitcher Packs panel shows 0 calories and 10 mg of vitamin C a serving. A Singles To Go panel shows 5 calories, 0 grams of sugar and 0 milligrams of sodium a stick.

Both print English and Spanish side by side: Cereza, Uva, Jugo Tropical, Limonada de Pepino, Sandía Fresa.

A case of Pitcher Packs is $17.98 today, or 25¢ a stick. Each stick pours 8 glasses, so the mix in a glass costs 3.1¢. Singles To Go cost 9.4¢ a glass, and that price includes the sweetener.

Who should pick which

A case of Pitcher Packs suits a house that mixes by the pitcher: school lunches, a ball team, a church kitchen. It is a poor fit for one person, who would be drinking the same flavor for months.

The Flavor Aid range for one person is Singles To Go. Skip it if you avoid aspartame, and take the pitcher sticks with your own sugar instead.

A sugar-free stick will not taste like a pitcher made with a full cup of sugar. Buyers say so in both directions.

What Flavor-Aid.com does

We are a small independent shop guide. We keep the Flavor Aid boxes, their prices and their label facts in one place, and we update the prices on a schedule.

When you pick a box, our retail partner takes the payment and handles delivery and returns. Jel Sert's drink mix does the rest.

What we add is the arithmetic the box leaves to you: what a stick costs, what a quart costs and how much sugar lands in a glass.

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From buyers

What buyers say about Flavor Aid

5 out of 5

A Great Tasting “Kool Aid”

I’ve read some of the other reviews and I think some may think this product is a sweetened mix for your water bottle. It is not. You mix this with two quarts of water and add your own sweetener. I use one teaspoon of pure stevia extract powder with 2 packets for a full gallon and it tastes perfect. The price is great. It is half the price of Kool Aid brand drink mixes.

MWK, November 21, 2025 · Cherry Pitcher Packs

5 out of 5

Same Great Flavor Everytime!

These powered drink mix packets have been my daily go to drink for the past year, I never get tired of the flavor. They mix very well with just a couple shakes in a normal 16 oz water bottle, very refreshing and my go to drink whenever I just don't want to drink plain water.

Jeannine C., July 24, 2026 · Singles To Go Aguas Frescas Variety Pack

3 out of 5

Artificial sweeteners

I love the taste, but the sweetener changed from stevia to the standard sweeteners in soda. Artificial sweeteners irritate my brother. So because of that, I will not be able to order them again.

Joli, March 12, 2026 · Singles To Go Cucumber Limeaid

All buyer reviews

Flavor Aid: three things people ask first

How much sugar goes into a pitcher of Flavor Aid?

A Flavor Aid Pitcher Packs stick takes 3/4 to 1 cup of sugar in 2 quarts of cold water. The carton says to sweeten to taste, and a no-calorie sweetener works for a low-calorie pitcher.

How many quarts does one Flavor Aid stick make?

One Flavor Aid Pitcher Packs stick makes 2 quarts, which is 8 cups. A carton of 6 sticks makes 12 quarts, and a 72-stick case makes 144 quarts.

Does Flavor Aid Singles To Go have sugar or calories?

Flavor Aid Singles To Go sticks are sugar free and carry 5 calories each. They sweeten with aspartame and acesulfame potassium, and one stick flavors a 16.9 fl oz bottle of water.

Ask about a box

Write to pitcher@flavor-aid.com and we will answer what the label and the box can tell us.

The brand

Flavor Aid at a glance

Flavor Aid is a brand of powdered drink mixes, sold on Amazon, known for the Singles To Go Aguas Frescas Variety Pack.

Flavor-Aid.com is an independent shop guide to Flavor Aid drink mixes and is not run by the brand.

US trademark
Registered June 23, 1998
In commerce since
May 2, 1932
Where it is sold
On Amazon
Best-known product
Singles To Go Aguas Frescas Variety Pack

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