The Greenspace Herbs R&D centre · Revamped 1 June 2026

Vignanaveda. Vignana means science; Veda means knowledge.

Where our ingredients begin. Four departments on the manufacturing campus, so a project runs end to end, next to production and quality control.

Walk throughFollow a botanical Talk to our scientists

Departments: 4
Papers published: 6
Conference presentation: 1
Revamped: 1 June 2026

Follow a botanical

From a sack of roots to a specification.

Scroll through the work a botanical goes through at Vignanaveda before it becomes one of our ingredients.

01
It arrives.
Raw botanical material is opened, sorted and looked over by hand before anything else happens to it.
02
It is matched.
Our reference sample library holds authenticated botanicals and their monographs. A new lot is compared against them.
03
It is looked into.
Under the microscope, the plant's cell structure is one more check that the material is what its label says.
04
It is extracted.
Phytochemistry draws out the compounds that matter; rotary evaporators then concentrate the extract gently, under vacuum.
05
It is measured.
HPLC, FTIR and Raman spectroscopy record identity, purity and the marker compounds, and the team reads the results against the specification.
06
It is formulated.
Formulation development turns a characterized extract into an ingredient, or a multi-active blend, that holds up on a manufacturer's line.
07
It is written down.
Every step goes into the record, so a batch can be traced back and its paperwork answered.

Four departments

One project, end to end.

Open a department.

Inside the formulation lab

Tap around the bench.

Two Vignanaveda scientists talking at the formulation bench, rotary evaporators between them

Rotary evaporatorsTwo units remove solvent under vacuum, concentrating an extract without overheating it.
Recirculating chillerCools the condensers so the solvent can be recovered.
Heating bathHolds the turning flask at a set temperature.
Glassware rackClean glassware dries here between runs.
Fume hoodVolatile solvents are handled under extraction.
Reagent benchReagents, samples and glassware staged for the day's work.

Quality control · on the same campus

Every result comes off an instrument.

The quality-control laboratory works alongside Vignanaveda: chromatography, analytical balances and a restricted-entry microbiology lab, so what research specifies is what production releases.

An analyst loading the gas chromatograph, with the carrier-gas lines above the bench — Gas chromatography

The QC instrument room, with HPLC and GC systems along both benches — The instrument room · HPLC and GC

The analytical balance room with its draft-shielded balances — Analytical balance room

The restricted-entry door of the microbiology laboratory — Microbiology laboratory · restricted entry

An analyst reviewing a chromatogram on the instrument workstation — Every result reviewed and on record

The quality-control laboratory with analysts at their workstations — The QC laboratory

The people

The scientists behind the paperwork.

The Vignanaveda team at the bench in front of the fume hoods — At the bench

A senior scientist in discussion with a colleague — Reading the results

Three scientists in a meeting — Project review

A scientist recording results at her laptop — Writing it up

A researcher examining a dried botanical sample — A new lot

Two scientists talking at the fume hoods — Phytochemistry

Two scientists at the muffle furnace — Ash and residue tests

A scientist and an analyst at the instrument workstation — At the workstation

Scientists at work, seen through the lab window — Through the glass

The Vignanaveda office, the Vignanaveda sign on the wall — The centre's office

The Vignanaveda mark on the laboratory wall: an atom, a lotus and an open book

The name

Vignana, science. Veda, knowledge.

An atom, a lotus and an open book: The mark on the laboratory wall says what the centre is for. Classical knowledge of a plant, read with the methods of modern analytical science.

The published record

Our work, in journals.

Research behind the EASI™ actives, in peer-reviewed journals. Each paper is described with its study type; lab studies are not results in people.

Bring us a botanical, or a brief.

Talk to our scientists about co-development, a custom grade or the study data behind an ingredient.

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Vignanaveda. Vignana means science; Veda means knowledge.

From a sack of roots to a specification.

It arrives.

It is matched.

It is looked into.

It is extracted.

It is measured.

It is formulated.

It is written down.