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Super Supau

sports drink brand

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ7642843
Source-derived summary

Super Supau (Chinese: 舒跑; pinyin: Shūpǎo) is a Taiwanese sports drink, manufactured by the Vitalon company since 1981. The company is based in the Gong Ye district of Taichung. The drink competes against Pocari Sweat and Aquarius, two brands introduced from Japan, as well as Heysong's Fin. Super Supau contains potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, electrolyte, vitamin C and Bifidobacterium. Super Supau is the best-selling sports drink brand in Taiwan.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Super Supau” is sports drink brand. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Super, Supau and sports, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Super, Supau and sports is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7642843. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1981.

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This entry incorporates text from Super Supau” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.