KABO Ingredient Glossary — All 63 Ingredients Explained

Sixty-three entries. What each one actually is, what it is needed for in the body, and — the part most labels skip — where else you can get it from ordinary Indian food. No health claims, no proprietary blends, nothing hidden behind the word “natural”.

63 ingredients

Protein Blend

Complete, highly digestible plant protein.

Brown Rice ProteinProtein milled and separated from whole brown rice. Yeast ProteinProtein from a food yeast — the same family as the yeast that leavens bread, grown and then dried. Yellow Pea ProteinProtein extracted from split yellow peas — the same pulse family as the matar in your pulao, concentrated until it is mostly protein and very little else.

Adaptogen, Fibre & Omega Blend

Functional mushrooms, roots and seeds.

ChlorellaA single-celled freshwater green algae, grown in tanks and dried into a deep green powder. Flax SeedsGround alsi — small brown seeds that are among the richest plant sources of alpha-linolenic acid, the plant form of omega-3. GingerDried, powdered adrak — the same rhizome that goes into your chai and your curry base. Maitake MushroomA large edible mushroom, Grifola frondosa, known in Japan as the dancing mushroom and long used in East Asian cooking and traditional medicine. Shiitake MushroomLentinula edodes, the brown-capped mushroom that gives East Asian broths their savoury backbone.

Antioxidant & Superfruit Blend

Polyphenol-rich fruits.

BananaDried banana, which brings natural sweetness, a soft body to the texture, and potassium. BlackberryAnother dark berry, dried and powdered. BlueberryFreeze-dried blueberry, which keeps far more of the anthocyanins — the pigments that make it blue — than heat drying would. CranberryDried cranberry, tart enough that it is rarely eaten plain. Goji BerryThe dried orange-red fruit of Lycium barbarum, used in Chinese cooking and medicine for centuries and sold in India mostly as an imported dry fruit. PomegranateDried anar, one of the few superfruits on this list that is genuinely Indian and genuinely everyday.

Super Green & Vegetable Blend

Whole-food greens and vegetables.

BeetrootDried chukandar. CarrotDried carrot, the most concentrated everyday source of beta-carotene there is. CucumberDried kheera. Green PepperDried capsicum. SpinachDried palak, powdered. TomatoDried tomato, carrying lycopene — the carotenoid behind its red colour.

Digestive & Enzyme Blend

Enzymes that help you break food down.

AmylaseAn enzyme that cuts starch into smaller sugars. CellulaseAn enzyme that breaks down cellulose, the fibrous structure of plant cell walls. LactaseThe enzyme that splits lactose, the sugar in milk. LipaseThe enzyme that breaks fats into fatty acids and glycerol so they can be absorbed. ProteaseThe family of enzymes that break protein into peptides and then into individual amino acids.

Prebiotic & Probiotic Blend

Live cultures and the fibre that feeds them.

InulinA soluble prebiotic fibre found naturally in chicory root, onion, garlic and banana. Lactobacillus acidophilusThe other live strain in the formula, and the one most people have heard of — it is the bacterium most commonly named on curd packets. Lactobacillus rhamnosusA live bacterial strain, one of the most extensively studied probiotics in existence.

Vitamin Blend

Thirteen vitamins at daily levels.

BiotinA B vitamin, also known as B7, that gut bacteria produce in small quantities as well as coming from food. FolateA B vitamin, called folate in food and folic acid in its supplemental form. Niacinamide (Vitamin B3)One of the two forms of vitamin B3. Pantothenic AcidVitamin B5. Vitamin AA fat-soluble vitamin, supplied either preformed or as beta-carotene which the body converts as needed. Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)A water-soluble B vitamin, lost readily in polished grains and in cooking water. Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin)The one vitamin that occurs naturally almost exclusively in animal foods. Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)A water-soluble B vitamin, and the one responsible for the bright yellow colour of B-complex tablets and of urine after taking them. Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)A water-soluble vitamin involved in more enzyme reactions than almost any other — well over a hundred of them, most concerning protein. Vitamin CWater-soluble, not stored by the body, and therefore needed daily. Vitamin DMade in the skin on exposure to sunlight, and present in very few foods. Vitamin EA fat-soluble antioxidant vitamin, present naturally in the seeds, nuts and oils in the formula as well as being added.

Mineral Blend

Bioavailable minerals.

CalciumThe most abundant mineral in the body, with almost all of it held in bone — which doubles as a reserve the body draws on when intake falls short. ChlorideAn electrolyte that arrives almost entirely as one half of sodium chloride — common salt. ChromiumA trace mineral needed in genuinely tiny amounts, present in whole foods and largely lost in refining. CopperA trace mineral that works closely with iron, and one of the few where the traditional Indian habit of drinking water stored in a copper vessel has some basis. IodineA trace mineral whose availability depends almost entirely on the soil where your food was grown — which is why salt iodisation exists. IronPresent in food in two forms: haem iron from animal sources, absorbed readily, and non-haem iron from plants, absorbed far less efficiently. MagnesiumA mineral involved in hundreds of enzyme reactions, held mostly in bone and muscle, and found in the green parts of plants because it sits at the centre of the chlorophyll molecule. ManganeseA trace mineral, distinct from magnesium despite the similar name, concentrated in whole grains, nuts and tea. MolybdenumA trace mineral required in the smallest amounts of anything on this list — micrograms a day. PhosphorusA mineral that works in partnership with calcium, and is found in nearly every protein-containing food. PotassiumThe electrolyte that works opposite sodium, and the one most Indian diets fall short of rather than exceed. SeleniumA trace mineral incorporated into a family of antioxidant enzymes. SodiumThe electrolyte most people get too much of rather than too little, mostly from processed food, pickles and papad rather than the salt shaker. ZincA trace mineral with no meaningful storage depot in the body, which means a steady daily supply matters more than for most nutrients.

Texture, Flavour & Sweetening

Everything else, and nothing artificial.

Cane SugarMinimally processed sugar from sugarcane. CocoaCocoa powder — roasted, pressed cacao with most of the fat removed. Coconut MilkDried coconut milk powder. MCTs from CoconutMedium-chain triglycerides extracted from coconut. Monk Fruit ExtractExtract of luo han guo, a small gourd from southern China. Natural FlavoursFlavour compounds derived from natural sources — fruit, spice, bean — rather than synthesised in a lab. Sea SaltUnrefined salt from evaporated seawater, carrying trace minerals that heavily refined table salt loses. SteviaSteviol glycosides extracted from the leaves of Stevia rebaudiana. Xanthan GumA soluble fibre produced by bacterial fermentation of sugar.

Amounts are not listed per nutrient because KABO does not publish a micronutrient breakdown; the full ingredient list is on every pack and at kabo.co.in/pages/ingredients. General nutrition information, not medical advice.