This invention relates to liquid dietary supplement formulation compositions that provide dietary minerals and additional optional ingredients beneficial for health； methods of design and manufacture of such compositions； and methods to enable convenient oral ingestion of the formulation ingredients by adding the formulations to drinking water beverages foods or meals. The formulation compositions of this invention generally include water water soluble calcium compound(s) water soluble magnesium compound(s) and additional optional ingredients wherein the sum of the concentrations of the calcium and magnesium compounds is most preferably 2 molar or more up to the point of saturation. The formulations of this invention possess inherent resistance to microbial growth. The formulations of this invention and variations thereof can be used as dietary supplements to increase intake of beneficial minerals to mineralize water to fortify foods or beverages and can also be used to prepare a variety of additional liquid formulations by varying the calcium and magnesium compounds and/or by adding one or more compatible ingredient(s).
