Indian botanicals, supplied as raw material — with the species, the part and the method on the paperwork.
We supply dried botanical raw material to supplement manufacturers, extractors, tea blenders and contract packers. Every lot is identity-checked against its monograph, assayed for its marker compound, and screened for heavy metals, microbiology, pesticides and EtO at a NABL-accredited lab. The Certificate of Analysis travels with the goods.
Three things decide whether a herb quote is worth anything.
The first is the binomial, not the bazaar name. "Brahmi" is sold in India as both Bacopa monnieri and Centella asiatica — two different plants. Ashwagandha root is routinely stretched with stem and whole-plant material that assays differently. So every lot is identity-checked against its monograph by HPTLC fingerprint plus macroscopic and microscopic examination, and the COA names the species and the plant part.
The second is that an assay is meaningless without its method. The same ashwagandha root can read 0.3% withanolides by HPLC and 2.5% by a gravimetric or UV method. Both numbers are printable; only one of them is what your formulation gets. We print the method next to the number on every COA — so if a competing offer quotes a bare percentage, you know the two figures are not comparable.
The third is that we make no claims, on purpose. We state what the material is and what it tests at, and we say nothing about what it does. Buyers who formulate for regulated markets treat an exporter making health claims as a compliance liability rather than a supplier — the claim belongs to the label owner, under their own regulator, on their own dossier.
| Species & plant part | HPTLC + macro/microscopic vs monograph |
| Marker compound | assay with the method printed beside it |
| Heavy metals | Pb, Cd, As, Hg by AAS or ICP-MS |
| Microbiology | TPC, yeast & mould, E. coli, Salmonella |
| Pesticide residue | GC-MS and LC-MS/MS to destination MRLs |
| Ethylene oxide | screened — non-detect required |
| Aflatoxin | B1 and total, by HPLC |
| Foreign matter & ash | total and acid-insoluble ash |
| Treatment | not irradiated; cultivated vs wild declared |
Also supplied
Quoted to spec on enquiry. Same COA discipline as the lead lines — binomial, plant part, marker assay with its method, heavy metals and microbiology.
A botanical COA is not a spice COA.
A spice buyer is checking colour, mesh and cleanliness. A botanical buyer is checking that the plant is the plant, that the marker compound is really there, and that nothing in the lot will fail their own incoming-goods test. Every lot we ship carries the following.
| Class | Parameter | What is reported, and how |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | Species & plant part | HPTLC fingerprint plus macroscopic and microscopic examination against the monograph. The binomial and the part — root, leaf, husk, fruit — are named, not implied. |
| Assay | Marker compound + method | Withanolides, sennosides, bacosides, saponins, swell volume — whichever governs your line, reported with the analytical method printed beside the figure. |
| Safety | Heavy metals | Lead, cadmium, arsenic and mercury by AAS or ICP-MS, against AYUSH and USP/EP limits — whichever your destination holds tighter. Root crops are screened as a rule, not on request. |
| Safety | Microbiology | Total plate count, yeast and mould, E. coli, Salmonella. Where your spec needs a low count we quote steam-sterilised lots and state the trade-off. |
| Residue | Pesticide & EtO | Multi-residue GC-MS and LC-MS/MS to destination MRLs. Ethylene oxide is screened for and must be non-detect — we do not source EtO-treated material. |
| Residue | Aflatoxin & mycotoxin | Aflatoxin B1 and total by HPLC. Leaf and root material that has been re-wetted in storage is the usual source, so it is a per-lot test. |
| Purity | Foreign matter & ash | Foreign organic matter percentage, total ash and acid-insoluble ash — the reliable tell for field soil, grit and stem carried into a powder. |
| Declaration | Treatment & adulteration | Not irradiated. No fillers, no added colour, no leaf-or-stem substitution. Cultivated versus wild-collected declared, for buyers running sustainability programmes. |
We are based inside the belt that grows the roots.
Excellar Global sits in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The Neemuch–Mandsaur–Manasa mandi belt — India's principal trading ground for cultivated ashwagandha root — is a two-to-three hour drive away. Madhya Pradesh is also India's largest producer of safed musli and carries the country's largest certified-organic acreage.
That matters for one practical reason: we can stand in the yard and look at the lot before it is bought, instead of accepting a photograph. Botanicals from outside our belt — moringa leaf from Tamil Nadu, psyllium from the Unjha trade, senna from Tirunelveli — are bought through established processors under the same COA condition.
How we source →Trade terms — botanicals
Terms are indicative and confirmed per order. Botanical powders are low-density — most lines fill a container by volume long before they fill it by weight, so plan tonnage against the loadability figure on each product page, not against a spice benchmark.
We make no medicinal, health or wellness claim on any botanical we sell.
These are raw materials sold business-to-business to manufacturers, extractors and blenders. We describe the species, the plant part, the grade, the marker assay and the method it was measured by. We do not describe what the plant does, because that is a claim — and claims belong to your finished product, your label, and your market's regulator, not to a raw-material invoice.
Market access is also yours to confirm. Several botanicals in common trade are restricted or under active review in specific jurisdictions — ashwagandha, for one, is restricted in Denmark and some other EU member states while its safety review runs. We will flag what we know of a destination's position when you name the port, and we will decline an order we believe cannot legally clear it, but the import permission and the label compliance are the importer's responsibility.
Culinary dried herbs — kasuri methi, dried curry leaf, dried mint — sit with the spice range, where they can travel in the same mixed container as your turmeric, chilli and blends.
Identity against the monograph. Marker assay with its method printed beside it. Heavy metals, microbiology, pesticide and EtO screening. Name the botanical, the grade you need and the port — we will quote to your incoming-goods spec, not to ours.