What is shilajit? Origin, purification and what a lab report shows

Shilajit is a dark brown, resin-like substance that forms by natural processes in mountain regions and is sold in the EU as a food supplement. Human Pro Shilajit is purified resin collected at around 4,000 metres in the Indian Himalayas. Each batch has a published lab report that you can match to the LOT number on your jar.

This guide covers where shilajit forms and how our resin reaches you. It also shows how to read the Shilajit test results for each batch.

Contents

1. What is shilajit?
2. Where does shilajit come from?
3. How is shilajit purified?
4. What is in one serving of Human Pro Shilajit?
5. How is each batch of Human Pro Shilajit tested?
6. What does a shilajit lab report show?
7. How do you take and store shilajit resin?
8. Is shilajit legal in the EU?

What is shilajit?

Shilajit is a dark brown, sticky resin with a characteristic smell, found in mountain regions. The German food authority BVL describes it as a complex product of both mineral and biological origin, formed by natural processes. The EU Novel Food Catalogue lists it under the name Asphaltum punjabianum.

What is shilajit made of? There is no single answer. The same BVL document says shilajit is not uniquely defined in origin or in composition, and that its origin can be animal, vegetable or mineral.

The same consultation places it in one of two novel-food categories of Article 3(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283. It is either food from material of mineral origin, or food from plants or their parts.

Our Human Pro Shilajit resin is a single ingredient: 100% shilajit resin with nothing added, so no fillers, carriers or flavourings. It comes as a soft resin in jars of 50 g, 100 g and 150 g.

No health claim has been authorised in the EU or in Great Britain for Shilajit, so we don't make one. This page explains where it comes from and how we test it.

Where does shilajit come from?

Shilajit comes from mountain regions, where it forms by natural processes over time. Human Pro Shilajit is collected at around 4,000 metres in the Indian Himalayas. We do not collect it or make it ourselves: we buy it as finished, purified resin.

That sets an honest limit on what we can show you. We do not run the collection site, so we do not describe it with photos or details we cannot check. What we can show is the result of each batch, measured by Eurofins at the source before the resin ships to us.

Altitude is one of the few origin facts on our product page. You will see other altitudes on other labels. An altitude tells you where a resin was collected, not what is in the jar.

The lab report is where the content of a batch is measured. That is why the rest of this guide spends more time on reports than on mountains.

How is shilajit purified?

Human Pro Shilajit has been purified and filtered after it was collected. We buy it as finished resin, with nothing added. We do not carry out the purification ourselves, so on this page we describe its result rather than each step.

Purification is a process step, not something you can see on a label. "Purified" on a jar tells you that a step took place. It does not tell you what the batch contains afterwards.

The way to check that is the lab report for the batch. It measures values after purification, including the four heavy metals in the table further down. You can set those values next to the EU maximums for food supplements.

The report for batch MSR002 comes from Eurofins Analytical Services India in Gurugram. A report also shows something purification cannot: the batch number, so you can tell which jar it belongs to.

What is in one serving of Human Pro Shilajit?

One serving of Human Pro Shilajit is a pea-sized portion of resin, 250 to 500 mg, taken once a day. The resin is the only ingredient. A 50 g jar lasts at least 100 days at that serving, as the label says.

What	Per serving	Per 50 g jar	Source
Shilajit resin	250 to 500 mg, a pea-sized portion	50 g	Label
Added ingredients	None	None	Label
Servings	1 a day	At least 100 days	Label

Source: Shilajit label and the Shilajit test results page, checked 19 October 2026.

The 100 days come from simple arithmetic. A 50 g jar holds 50,000 mg. At the largest serving of 500 mg, that gives 100 servings, so a jar lasts at least 100 days at one serving a day.

The 50 g jar comes with a scoop spoon, so you do not need a scale. A pea-sized portion is the measure the label uses.

How is each batch of Human Pro Shilajit tested?

Every Human Pro Shilajit batch has its own Eurofins report. Each report names the laboratory and the method next to a report number that you can find on our test results page. On 19 October 2026 that page listed six batches, from SR1800 (July 2024) to MSR002 (March 2026).

We publish a certificate for every batch, with the method and the laboratory next to each result, and we leave earlier batches online. That way an older jar can still be matched to its own report.

Batch MSR002 has two published reports. Report AR-26-KV-009191-03 holds the heavy-metal values. A separate screening report, AR-26-KV-009012-02, covers ethylene oxide.

To find your batch, look at the back of the jar. The LOT number is printed there, next to the best-before date, and you can look that batch up on the test results page.

What does a shilajit lab report show?

A shilajit lab report shows measured values for one batch, with the laboratory and the method beside each value. The heavy-metal rows are the ones to compare with the EU maximums for food supplements. Here is batch MSR002 as a worked example.

Read a report field by field:

1. Batch: the code must match the LOT on your jar, or the report is about another batch.
2. Laboratory: the name of the lab that measured the sample, and whether the method is accredited.
3. Method: the method code tells you how each value was measured.
4. Result and unit: heavy metals are given in mg per kg of resin.
5. Limit: the EU maximum for food supplements, where one exists.
6. Below the limit of quantification: the value was too low for the method to put a number on it.

A report covers the batch it names and nothing else. It says nothing about another batch, so check the batch code first.

How do you take and store shilajit resin?

Human Pro Shilajit is labelled as a food supplement, with one serving a day. Dissolve one pea-sized portion (250 to 500 mg) in a glass of warm water, tea or milk, once a day. The resin does not dissolve well in cold liquid, so use a warm one.

Take one serving a day and no more. The label sets one portion once a day and says not to exceed the recommended daily dose.

Warm water, tea or milk are the only liquids the label names. We give no other ways to take it, and no mixes with food.

A food supplement is not a substitute for a varied, balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle. The full list of label warnings sits in the section on who should not use shilajit, further down this page.

How should you store shilajit resin?

Store Human Pro Shilajit closed, in a cool, dry place out of direct sunlight. That is the storage line on our product page. The best-before date is printed on the pack, next to the LOT number.

Keeping the lid closed after each serving follows the same storage line. Check the best-before date on the jar itself, since it differs from batch to batch.

The LOT number next to that date has a second use. It is the code you match to a report on our test results page. So one look at the back of the jar gives you both the date and the batch.

Is shilajit legal in the EU?

In the EU, shilajit is not a novel food when it is used in food supplements. The EU Novel Food Catalogue gives entry POL-NF-00522 the status "not novel in food supplements", last modified on 20 March 2025. In other foods, shilajit is novel and would need an authorisation first.

The status comes from a consultation that Germany's BVL handled under Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283. The Commission listed the outcome on 21 August 2020.

Its conclusion has two parts. Use "as or in food supplements" is not novel, and the product "is novel when used as or in foods other than food supplements".

Czechia, the same document records, reported use of shilajit in food supplements before 15 May 1997. That date is the cut-off the novel-food rules use.

In practice this is why shilajit in the EU is sold as a food supplement with a labelled daily serving, and not as an ingredient of other foods. Entry checked in the Novel Food Catalogue on 19 October 2026; consultation checked on the Commission's consultation page on 20 October 2026.

Frequently asked questions

How is shilajit sold and taken in the EU?

In the EU, shilajit is sold as a food supplement, taken as one labelled serving a day dissolved in warm water, tea or milk. Its novel-food status does not cover use as an ingredient of other foods. This guide sticks to facts you can check yourself: where shilajit forms, the label serving and the batch reports.

Is shilajit a mineral or a plant?

Shilajit is neither simply a mineral nor a plant. The BVL consultation describes it as a product of both mineral and biological origin, not uniquely defined in origin or composition. The consultation places it in either the mineral-origin or the plant category of novel foods.

Does Human Pro make its own shilajit?

No. Human Pro does not make Shilajit: it is bought as finished resin and tested by Eurofins at the source. We publish the report for every batch on our Shilajit test results page, and earlier batches stay online, so you can always match a jar to its report.

What to do next

To compare shilajit products, open their lab reports next to ours and look for the same fields: batch, laboratory, method, result and EU maximum. Our lab results for every product page lists every published batch.

Already have a jar? Match the LOT on your jar to the batch reports for Human Pro Shilajit.

Update history

• First published as the Shilajit guide, with every fact checked against the Shilajit label, the Shilajit test results page and the EU sources listed above.