Bulk liquid Reishi and Lion's Mane extract, by the kilogram.
Grown and water-extracted in Rockville, Maryland. No ethanol, no methanol, alcohol-free.
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Two formats. Both species.
AHARA supplies bulk Reishi and Lion's Mane extract as a liquid water extract, alcohol-free, by the kilogram, from a 1 kg minimum, made at our own FDA-registered facility in Rockville, Maryland. Same water extraction, same facility, same lot traceability in both formats. Pick the one that fits how you are formulating.
Raw extract
The water extract as it comes off concentration. No carrier, nothing added.
- For formulators blending their own base
- Highest actives per gram shipped
- Cold chain, ask about handling
55% glycerin
The finished liquid we bottle ourselves. Shelf-stable and ready to fill.
- For private label and ready-to-fill liquids
- Self-preserving, no cold chain
- Alcohol-free
Every format available in Reishi and Lion's Mane. Pricing is quoted per account against your volume and format, and goes out with your sample.
Fast acting is a claim your brand gets to make.
It starts with the extraction. We work in water, gently enough that the mushroom’s own structure survives it, and that structure is what your finished product gets to say on its own label.
The extraction leaves the mushroom intact.
Extraction is aqueous from start to finish, with no ethanol and no methanol at any step, and all 26 ganoderic acids are recovered that way. The process is gentle enough that the mushroom’s own architecture survives it, which is why there is a naturally occurring nanofiber in the material at all. Nothing is added, nothing is engineered and nothing is milled in.
It acts fast in the finished format.
Taken under the tongue, the actives cross tissue rather than going through the gut, where a meaningful fraction of what you paid for is degraded before it does anything. That structure survives into both the raw water extract and the 55% glycerin blend. If speed of onset is part of your product story, the format has to support it.
The characterization backs it, on request.
We do not ask you to take the format on faith. The electron microscopy and the full metabolomics report ship with your sample, so your own technical team can judge the material rather than relying on our description of it.
What formulators do with it.
It arrives as a liquid, already in solution, which decides most of this for you. It goes in as supplied, with no premix step.
Functional beverage
Water-miscible and already in solution, so it goes into a batch tank without a premix. Alcohol-free matters here, because an ethanol-extracted input has to be declared and usually has to be stripped.
Gummy and soft chew
The 55% glycerin blend is the one to ask about. Glycerin is already in most gummy systems, so the carrier is not a foreign ingredient you have to account for in the matrix.
Tincture and dropper filling
Fill it as supplied, or cut it to your own strength. This is the shortest path from our drum to your bottle, and the format our own finished product uses.
Topical and personal care
No ethanol and no methanol, so there is no solvent to flash off and no residual-solvent limit to carry into a leave-on formula.
Working on something else? Tell Aaron what the formulation needs. We run the extraction ourselves, so carrier, concentration and pack size are process decisions rather than things we buy in.
Every claim here has a document behind it.
Three claims, all of them documented by somebody other than us, and all of them in your hands before you place an order.
The most comprehensive metabolomic characterization of medicinal mushroom extracts ever conducted.
Dual-platform mass spectrometry at Human Metabolome Technologies in Japan, an independent lab. Over 2,000 metabolites named and mapped to pathways. Published, with the full dataset public. The DOI is citable in your own specification file, so your quality team can check the chemistry before sending us a single email.
Water extraction that recovers all 26 ganoderic acids.
Our water-based process recovers every one of them, confirmed by mass spectrometry and documented in the published dataset. For you that means a food-grade, alcohol-free ingredient. We test for residual solvents anyway and the result goes out on the Certificate of Analysis, so there is nothing for you to declare or explain to your own customers.
Naturally occurring nanofibers, documented by transmission electron microscopy.
Imaged at the University of Maryland. The structure forms during extraction and is present in the liquid itself, about 190 nanometers across, roughly 370 times thinner than a human hair. Nothing is added and nothing is engineered, so there is no novel ingredient for you to qualify. It is what makes the finished product fast acting, it carries actives across tissue instead of through the gut, and it survives into both the raw extract and the glycerin blend.
This is the fiber, at 15,000x.
Not an illustration and not a model. A transmission electron micrograph of our own Reishi extract, taken at the University of Maryland, showing the nanofiber that water extraction leaves behind in the liquid.
Roughly 370 of our fibers laid side by side across a single hair. Across the sample set they run 100 to 500 nm on the short axis and about 3.6 µm long.
- Naturally occurring, nothing added or engineered
- Imaged at the University of Maryland, 80 kV, 15,000x
- Fast acting: carries actives across tissue instead of through the gut
- Present in the raw extract and in the 55% glycerin blend
Every lot ships with its own paperwork.
- Manufactured under 21 CFR Part 111 at our own facility in Rockville, Maryland.
- FDA registered food facility, registration number 18864353468.
- NSF/ANSI 455-2 certification in progress.
- Per-lot Certificate of Analysis
- Identity by HPTLC fingerprint and microscopy
- Heavy metals and microbial results, ISO/IEC 17025 lab
- No ethanol, no methanol, no residual solvents
- Allergen, non-GMO, vegan and BSE/TSE statements
- Full metabolomics characterization, 2,000+ compounds
The same document package goes out with every sample and every order. You do not have to ask for it.
Email today. Sample tomorrow. Shipped a week after you order.
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Species, format and how many kilograms you need. One email, no portal, no form.
Same day replyWe send a sample
With the Certificate of Analysis for the lot it was drawn from, and the price for your volume.
Ships next dayYou order, we extract and ship
One kilogram minimum, any format. Made to your order in Rockville, Maryland.
One week from your POThe answers, before you have to ask for them.
What is the minimum order quantity?
One kilogram, in any format and either species. That is a real minimum, not a sample tier. It ships from a released production lot with the same document package as any larger order.
What are your lead times?
One week from your purchase order to shipped, extracted to your order in Rockville, Maryland. Samples go out the next day. A week holds while released material is on hand or a batch is scheduled; if we are starting cold we will say so when you ask, not after you order.
Can I get a Certificate of Analysis?
Yes, per lot, and you do not have to request it. The same document package ships with every sample and every order: the lot COA, identity by HPTLC fingerprint and microscopy, heavy metals and microbial results from an ISO/IEC 17025 lab, and the allergen, non-GMO, vegan and BSE/TSE statements.
Is there any alcohol in the extract?
None. The process is water-based, with no ethanol and no methanol at any step. We test for residual solvents anyway and the result goes out on the Certificate of Analysis, so there is nothing for you to declare or explain to your own customers. Our water extraction recovers all 26 ganoderic acids from Reishi, and the published dataset documents every one of them.
Are your extracts from fruiting body or mycelium?
Both AHARA Reishi and Lion's Mane extracts contain fruiting body and mycelium. No tissue ratio is specified here. Review the material identity, supplied format and lot documentation against your formulation requirements.
What is the mycelium grown on?
Organic red oak and soy from Maine, certified at the supplier. Grain spawn is the inoculum, as it is on essentially every mushroom farm, but the fruiting substrate is hardwood and soy, so this is not the mycelium-on-grain material the category argues about. The soy is in the substrate the mushroom grows on: we extract the mushroom, not the substrate, so soy is not an added ingredient. You will have our written position on substrate carryover before you order.
Can you make a format you do not list?
Ask. We run the extraction ourselves in our own facility, so carrier, concentration and pack size are process decisions rather than things we buy in. Tell Aaron what your formulation needs and we will tell you honestly whether we can make it and what it would take.
What formats do you supply?
Raw water extract, or a 55% glycerin blend, in Reishi and Lion's Mane. Sold by the kilogram, from a 1 kg minimum, in either format and either species.
What standard do you manufacture under?
We manufacture under 21 CFR Part 111 at our own FDA registered food facility in Rockville, Maryland, registration 18864353468, with NSF/ANSI 455-2 certification in progress. We grow, extract and pack in one place, and every lot is tested by an accredited third-party laboratory, so lot traceability runs back to the biomass rather than stopping at a broker.
Request samples.
Email Aaron with your company, the species and format you need, volume and timing. Samples, the lot COA and the full document package ship the next day.
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