Adaptogen Balance Kit
Made to order
All kits are on back-order and made to order. Typical delivery is within 28 days of purchase.
A non-stimulant daily botanical kit built on six authenticated whole dried-plant powders — maca root, chamomile flower, lemon balm leaf, astragalus root, amla fruit and schisandra berry. Every one is a milled whole plant, not a concentrated extract, because that is the form Australian food law can actually support.
The four adaptogens the category is famous for — ashwagandha, rhodiola, cordyceps and lion’s mane — are supplied in the kit as well: FSANZ currently treats each as an unapproved novel food for this use. Forge publishes no starting formula. You decide what goes in and at what dose, inside the daily limits on this page. That gap is the formulation problem this kit exists to teach.
This is not a retail food product. Kits are not for sale to the general public. These products are only sold to businesses, founders, and entrepreneurs who are evaluating commercial products.
What's in the box
Every material.
Every pouch.
This is what ships — individually labelled, pre-weighed pouches of specification-grade raw material. Forge does not publish a recommended formulation, a starting dose or a serve count. What you make from these, and at what dose, is yours to decide — within the limits below.
Hard limits
No recipe.
Just ceilings.
Forge gives you no starting formula and no suggested dose — that judgement is yours. What it does give you is where Australian food law stops. These are daily maximums, not recommendations: staying under them is a requirement, reaching them is not a target.
Add more flavours
Once your Flavour Kit is in the cart, add extra flavour pouches and top-ups here — as many as you like. Every pouch is its own labelled SKU.
Additional flavour pouches unlock once a Flavour Kit (three flavours minimum) is in your cart.
Build your Flavour KitAugment with raw materials
Optional individual raw-material pouches to extend this kit. Weigh precisely and stay within any maximum limits listed on this page.
Sold as a kit add-on — add a Forge kit to your cart first, then augment it here.
Choose a kitIn the box
What ships.
What doesn’t.
In every kit
- Individually labelled raw-ingredient pouches, sized by net weight
- Limits card: the statutory daily maximum for every capped material, and the kit’s cautions
- Usage and safety instruction sheet
Deliberately not included
- Flavour Kit (sold separately — required for a drinkable prototype; includes three sweeteners, the masking agent, and citric and malic acid)
- Precision scale and shaker
- Compliance advice, TGA guidance, or finished-product documentation
Forge kits produce prototypes — approximately 60% of a commercial product. What’s missing is intentional: professional flavour optimisation, FSANZ-aligned compliance review, final batch documentation, and commercial-scale production tolerances. That work belongs at MHS.
How to drink it
Preparation
& sensory.
Safety & cautions
Read this
before you build.
- 01 / 03 Botanical prototype for healthy adults. The limits above are daily totals, however you choose to divide them.
- 02 / 03 The 300 mL minimum water volume is part of the specification, not a taste preference — schisandra must stay below 100 mg/100 mL and astragalus at about 0.25% w/w.
- 03 / 03 Ashwagandha, rhodiola, cordyceps and lion’s mane are supplied for formulation work only. FSANZ treats each as an unapproved novel food for this use, and the TGA has warned of rare liver injury with ashwagandha.
Before you order
What you need.
Who shouldn’t.
Equipment required
- Scale (0.01 g for schisandra and amla)
- Shaker or stirring vessel
- 300 mL measure
Not included in the kit — most founders already own both.
This kit is unsuitable for
Pregnancy and breastfeeding, children, and anyone with liver, thyroid or autoimmune conditions or taking medicines affected by botanicals. Adults only.
The instruction sheet in the kit names this formula’s specific cautions.
Shipping & returns
Every kit is made to order by MHS in Australia — nothing is held in stock. Typical delivery is within 28 days of purchase. Shipping calculated at checkout. Returns accepted on unopened kits only — raw-ingredient products can’t be restocked once opened. Full detail in the shipping and refund policies.
The next step
Your prototype is step one.
When you’re ready to manufacture, MHS takes your concept the rest of the way. Professional flavour optimisation, regulatory compliance, and small-to-medium batch manufacturing — built for Australian supplement brands. The same team that formulated your Forge kit knows exactly what a production-ready version of it looks like.
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Batch manufacturing
Small-to-medium production runs with batch records and traceability, from a licensed Brisbane facility.
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Compliance review
FSANZ-aligned formula and label review before production — the work Forge deliberately does not do.
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Professional flavour development
Your prototype flavour direction, refined by the MHS development team to a commercial standard.
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Labelling and 3PL fulfilment
Graphics, labelling, and third-party logistics for your first production run and the repeatable runs after it.
Questions