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3basics is the consumer brand of Helios Biocred Private Limited. We grow, extract, test and manufacture at our own facility in Ghamroj, Gurugram — which is unusual in this industry, and it is the whole reason the company exists.
Can you grow cordyceps properly in India?
Cordyceps is one of the most researched ingredients in the supplement world and one of the hardest to cultivate. It needs a controlled environment held steady over a long cycle. And by the time an extract has changed hands three or four times, testing what arrives tells you about the sample rather than the batch.
We spent two years on R&D at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology in Faridabad before we built anything at all. Then we built a facility at Ghamroj where we could do the whole thing ourselves — grow it, extract it, test it, and make the finished product under one roof.
We are a small company. We currently make two products. We would rather make two we can defend than twenty we cannot.
— Anshuman Kalra and Sabhya Saachi Sharma, directors
An Indian supplement industry where the label tells the truth — and where a customer can ask what is in the bottle and get a real answer.
To make a small number of supplements we can stand behind completely: ingredients we grow and test ourselves, delivery systems that actually work, and honest information about what each one will and will not do.
Anyone can test an incoming drum. We wanted to be able to tell you what is in the bottle you personally bought, which is why we grow and extract ourselves and publish a report per batch.
Where research is laboratory and animal work rather than human trials, we say so — on the product page, next to the claim. It costs us some conversions. It is worth more than it costs.
No symptom checklists, no lists of what goes wrong if you do not buy, no dramatising a problem to sell a solution. If you need a doctor rather than a supplement, we will say that instead.
Regulation caps how much of a botanical a supplement may carry, so the answer is never simply "more". The work is in what sits alongside it, at what ratio, and how it is delivered.
These are slow formulations. Pretending otherwise sells one bottle and loses a customer. We publish honest timelines and price the course so finishing it costs less than starting twice.
Adding SKUs is easy and standing behind them is not. The range grows when something earns its place, not when the shelf looks thin.
Most of this period involved no product and no revenue. That is what building the capability actually looks like.
Two directors, one problem: nobody in India could tell us reliably what was in a cordyceps extract.
Strain, substrate, cycle, extraction. No product, no sales, no website.
Growth chambers, extraction line, QC laboratory and manufacturing, in one building in HSIIDC Udyog Kunj.
Statement of ingredients, technical personnel, facility documentation. Then four rounds of queries.
Five months and four query rounds after filing.
BASE on the Energy shelf, Vitamin D3 + K2 on Balance. Defence when it earns its place.
Leads the R&D, the cultivation and extraction work, and the formulation of every product. Spent the two years at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology that this company was built on.
A chartered accountant by training. Handles the commercial side, compliance and the regulatory relationship — which in this industry is most of the job.
Photography to be shot. Placeholders shown.
Four stages, one roof, at HSIIDC Udyog Kunj in Ghamroj. Very few supplement brands in India manufacture their own products, and fewer still grow their own ingredients.
Inside the facility →Distributors, clinics, practitioners and anyone with a technical question — we would rather have the conversation than send a brochure.
Tell us when suits you. Someone from our formulation team will call — and if the honest answer is that we do not have anything for what you need, that is what they will say.
We are not doctors and this is not medical advice. If something needs a doctor, we will tell you so.
Usually within one working day, in the window you picked.
Demo only — this mockup does not send anything anywhere.
