About THE5XLNUTRITION
By The Athlete,
For The Athlete.
Manufactured In-House,
Not Outsourced.
The 5XL Nutrition is an Indian sports nutrition supplements brand founded in 2019 by competitive weightlifter Shourya Rao. We are owned and manufactured by Fitamins Healthcare Private Limited at our own FSSAI-licensed facility in Kanina, Haryana – producing whey protein, creatine, pre-workout, mass gainers, amino acids and cycle support for athletes, lifters and everyday fitness enthusiasts across India.
We do not outsource production. That single decision shapes everything else on this page.
WHERE WE STAND TODAY
2019 | Operating since |
December 2019 | Own manufacturing licence since |
875,689+ | Customers served across our website and offline retail network |
44 | Products in range |
18 | Licensed formulation categories, approved on our FSSAI licence |
15,000 sq ft | Manufacturing facility – Kanina, Haryana |
1 metric tonne/day | Licensed production capacity |
579+ | Retail and gym partners |
Pan-India | Delivery |
We manufacture what we sell. Every number above is tied to a document, and the licence and certificate numbers are printed in full further down this page for exactly that reason.
OUR STORY: FROM THE PLATFORM TO THE PRODUCTION LINE
In 2016, Shourya Rao took gold in the 105 kg category at the Delhi State Weightlifting Championship. Like most competitive lifters in India at the time, he trained hard and supplemented harder and like most, he had no reliable way of knowing whether what he was buying was what the label claimed.
That was the ordinary experience of the Indian lifter a decade ago, and much of it still is. Tubs with impressive front labels and unverifiable backs. Protein counts that no independent test had ever confirmed. Imported brands sold at a premium through channels nobody could vouch for, alongside counterfeits of those same brands, often on the same shelf. The people selling all of it had, almost without exception, never competed at anything.
The 5XL Nutrition was built to close that gap.
The brand launched in 2019 under Fitamins Healthcare Private Limited. Rather than staying with a marketing company that buys finished powder from an unnamed contract manufacturer the route almost every Indian supplement label takes – we set out to build and licence our own plant. Our FSSAI Central Manufacturing Licence was granted in 2019.
It is a slower, heavier, more capital-intensive way to build a supplement company. It is also the only way to genuinely control what ends up in the tub.
Our Journey
2015 – Kuldeep Singh Yadav records a 190 kg raw bench press at 93 kg bodyweight in Jamshedpur.
2016 – Shourya Rao takes gold in the 105 kg category at the Delhi State Weightlifting Championship.
2019 – The 5XL Nutrition launches under Fitamins Healthcare Private Limited.
December 2019 – FSSAI Central Manufacturing Licence granted. We stop being a brand that buys powder and become a company that makes it.
Today – 44 products across 18 licensed formulation categories, 579+ retail and gym partners, and more than 875,689 customers served.
MEET THE PEOPLE BEHIND The 5XL Nutrition
Most supplement brands in India are run by people who have never competed, never coached, and never had to care what a bad batch does to twelve weeks of preparation.
Ours are not. Here is exactly who makes the decisions, and what qualifies them to make them.
Shourya Rao - Founder & Director
Shourya Rao founded The 5XL Nutrition in 2019. He competed as a weightlifter in the 105 kg category and took gold at the Delhi State Weightlifting Championship in 2016.
At The 5XL he leads brand direction and product strategy, and he sets the standard that no formulation ships unless he would take it himself in a competition prep.
Connect: Instagram @shouryarao5xl
Kuldeep Singh Yadav - Director, Formulation & Quality
Kuldeep Singh Yadav is a director of Fitamins Healthcare Private Limited and the person responsible for what goes into every 5XL formulation. He is a graduate of Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education (LNIPE), Gwalior – India’s premier government institute for physical education and sports science – and a PhD scholar in exercise physiology.
As a competitor he recorded a 190 kg raw bench press at 93 kg bodyweight in Jamshedpur in 2015, and placed in the top six at the IFBB Amateur Olympia Italy in 2018.
Connect: Instagram @kuldeepsinghyadav
Pradeep Rao - Chief Executive Officer
Pradeep Rao is Chief Executive Officer of The 5XL Nutrition and leads the company’s day-to-day operations, from production planning through to distribution and commercial partnerships.
Connect: Instagram @pradeeprao.1
Most supplement formulations in India are set by a purchasing decision. Someone picks a cost-per-serving target, a contract manufacturer works backwards from it, and the label is written last.
Ours are set by a man who has spent his adult life studying, competing in, and coaching the sport the products are for.
The academic side. Kuldeep Singh Yadav is a graduate of Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education (LNIPE), Gwalior – India’s premier government institute for physical education and sports science, and one of the few places in the country with a genuine research lineage in this field. He is currently a PhD scholar in exercise physiology, researching the comparative effects of high-volume strength training, high-intensity strength training and combination training on the lower limb.
That research sits directly underneath how our muscle-building and recovery products are dosed. Which is a sentence very few supplement brands in this country can write honestly.
The competitive side. Credentials on paper are one thing. Kuldeep Sir has also done the work – a 190 kg raw bench press at 93 kg bodyweight in Jamshedpur in 2015, and a top-six finish at the IFBB Amateur Olympia Italy in 2018. He has been through the preparation, the weight cuts, the recovery windows and the last four weeks before a stage. Which means he understands, first-hand, what a badly dosed product costs an athlete.
The coaching side. Kuldeep also founded and runs Gurus of Fitness, an education platform where Indian competitive athletes and coaches share training methodology, programming and recovery knowledge with serious lifters. He is not a scientist who has read about lifting, and not a lifter who has picked up some science. He is both, and he has been teaching it for years.
What this means for what you buy
Doses reflect research, not cost targets. Where the evidence supports a clinical dose, the label carries a clinical dose – even when it raises our cost per tub.
Nothing is included as label decoration. If an ingredient cannot be justified at the quantity we can afford to include, it is left out rather than sprinkled in at a token amount so it can appear on the front of the pack.
Every formulation is signed off by someone who competes. Nothing ships that Kuldeep singh yadav and Shourya rao would not run in their own preparation.
HOW OUR SUPPLEMENTS ARE MADE
We own our manufacturing. The 5XL Nutrition is Manufactured by Fitamins Healthcare Private Limited at our 15,000 sq ft plant on Anita Road, Kanina, Mahendragarh, Haryana – not white-labelled from a third-party unit and re-branded, which is how the large majority of Indian supplement labels are actually produced.
From raw material to sealed tub
- Supplier qualification. Our whey protein concentrate and isolate, amino acids and specialised actives are sourced from established international suppliers.
- Incoming goods check. Every consignment arrives with supplier documentation, checked against our own written specification before the material is accepted into production.
- Blending on our own line. Under our own FSSAI Central Licence, in our own facility, at a licensed capacity of one metric tonne per day.
- In-house quality control. Our facility operates an in-house quality control laboratory.
- Accredited batch testing. Chemical and microbiological contaminant testing through NABL-accredited or FSSAI-recognised laboratories.
- Coded and sealed. Every tub carries a unique verification code linked to its batch number, manufacturing date and expiry.
Our licences and certifications
Certification | Number | Issued by | Valid until |
FSSAI Central Licence | 13322999001439 | Food Safety and Standards Authority of India | 4 December 2028 |
ISO 9001:2015 — Quality Management | 24MEQST58 | Magnitude Management Services Pvt. Ltd. (EGAC accredited, IAF MLA signatory) | 1 July 2027 |
GMP — Good Manufacturing Practices | INWGMP/HR-46395/0724 | Paramount Quality Certifications | 30 June 2027 |
Our FSSAI licence is a Central Licence in the Manufacturer – Food or Health Supplements and Nutraceuticals category, first granted in December 2022, carrying no suspension history. It covers 18 approved formulation categories including whey protein isolate, whey protein concentrate, creatine, citrulline, beta-alanine, L-glutamine, L-leucine, omega-3, CoQ10, astaxanthin and tribulus.
You can verify all of this yourself. Enter licence number 13322999001439 at foscos.fssai.gov.in. We publish the number in full text rather than as an image for precisely that reason.
Our ISO 9001:2015 scope is registered as “Manufacturer of food health supplements and nutraceuticals products” – meaning the certification covers our actual production line, not a trading or marketing arm. That distinction matters more than most buyers realise: a certificate issued to a trading entity tells you nothing whatsoever about the factory that made your protein.
What we test for
Every batch is tested for:
- Protein content against label claim
- Heavy metals – lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury
- Microbiological safety – total plate count, yeast and mould, E. coli, Salmonella
- Free-form amino acid profile, screened against the declared protein content
On amino spiking and proprietary blends
We do not use proprietary blends, and we do not amino-spike.
A “proprietary blend” is a legal method of concealing how little of the expensive ingredient is actually in the tub. Amino spiking – padding a protein powder with cheap free-form amino acids so it passes a crude nitrogen-based protein test is widespread in this market and effectively impossible for a customer to detect unaided.
Every 5XL label declares the exact quantity of every active ingredient per serving. If a product says 24 g of protein, the label says 24 g, and the batch test confirms 24 g.
WHAT MAKES THE 5XL NUTRITION DIFFERENT
Formulated by people who have actually competed
Our products are specified by a state-gold weightlifter and by an LNIPE graduate and PhD scholar in exercise physiology who has himself benched 190 kg and placed top six at the IFBB Amateur Olympia.
Dosages are set against what training and recovery actually require – not against what makes the cost-per-serving look best on a spreadsheet.
We own the factory, and we’ll tell you where it is
Most Indian supplement brands are marketing companies that buy finished powder from a contract manufacturer they will not name. Read their pages: you will find “world-class facility” and “state-of-the-art plant”, and no address anywhere.
We hold the FSSAI manufacturing licence ourselves, at an address you can look up and visit – Anita Road, Kanina, Mahendragarh, Haryana. Licence 13322999001439, verifiable on the government portal in about thirty seconds. When a formulation needs to change, we change it on our own line, on our own schedule.
No proprietary blends. Ever.
Every 5XL label declares the exact quantity of every active ingredient. You always know precisely what you are paying for, and precisely what you are putting in your body.
Anyone using a proprietary blend is using it for a reason. The reason is never that it benefits you.
Real protein, verified by testing
Protein content is verified against label claim before release, and we screen the free-form amino acid profile to guard against spiking.
The number on the front of the tub is a number we have tested, not a number we have hoped for.
Made in India, for Indian athletes
We manufacture in Haryana for Indian conditions – formulated for local dietary patterns, digestibility and climate, packed and stored in-country, and delivered without spending months in a shipping container.
Shorter supply chain, fresher product, and a real address in the country where you live.
Priced honestly
We are not the cheapest, because good raw materials and a real testing programme cost what they cost.
We are also not paying an international brand licensing fee, an import duty stack or a celebrity endorsement – and we do not add those to your price. What you pay reflects what is in the tub.
The honest comparison
Typical Indian supplement brand | The 5XL Nutrition | |
Who owns the factory? | Undisclosed third-party contract manufacturer | We do – FSSAI Central Licence 13322999001439 |
Is the address public? | “State-of-the-art facility” | Anita Road, Kanina, Mahendragarh, Haryana |
Who sets the doses? | A cost target | A PhD scholar in exercise physiology |
Proprietary blends? | Common | Never |
Label claim verification | Trust the front of the tub | Batch-tested against label claim |
Anti-spiking screening | Rarely disclosed | Free-form amino acid profile screened |
Certificate scope | Often issued to a trading arm | Issued to the manufacturing line |
Can you verify any of it? | Usually not | Yes – licence number above, government portal |
BUY GENUINE, BE SAFE: OUR AUTHENTICITY GUARANTEE
Counterfeit supplements are the single biggest problem in the Indian market. Fakes take your money, waste your training, and can genuinely damage your health.
Every 5XL Nutrition product carries a unique verification code – a scratch code or QR code printed on the pack. Scratch it, enter it, and you get an instant answer.
A valid code returns your product’s batch number, manufacturing date and expiry.
An invalid code means what you bought is not a genuine The 5XL product – and we want to know about it. Email us at [5xlnutrition@gmail.com] with your order number and photographs of the product and packaging, and we will investigate and act against the seller.
We ask every customer to verify on delivery. It protects you, and it is how we find and shut down unauthorized sellers.
#Buy_Genuine_Be_Safe
OUR PRODUCT RANGE
44 products across our full range. Every one is made in our own facility.
Whey Protein & Protein Supplements → Whey concentrate, isolate and blend for muscle repair and daily protein intake, with protein content verified against label claim on every batch.
Muscle Building → Creatine, L-glutamine, L-leucine and HMB formulations for strength, output and recovery between sessions.
Mass Gainers → Clean-calorie gainers built on whey protein, complex carbohydrates and healthy fats — without the sugar loading that defines most of this category.
Amino Acids → EAA and single-amino formulations for intra-workout support and recovery.
Fat Loss → Support formulations for cutting phases and calorie-deficit training blocks.
On Cycle Support → Liver, kidney and cardiovascular support formulations for athletes training under heavy load.
Post Cycle Support → Recovery and organ support formulations for the period following intensive training blocks.
Joint Care → Collagen and joint support for lifters carrying heavy loading volume over years.
Vitamins → and Health & Wellness → Multivitamins, omega-3, CoQ10 and daily foundation supplements.
Skin, Hair & Nails → and Anti-Ageing → Collagen, astaxanthin and antioxidant formulations.
BEYOND SUPPLEMENTS: FITNESS EDUCATION
Our director Kuldeep Singh Yadav also runs Gurus of Fitness, India’s first fitness and bodybuilding coaching platform where Indian competitive athletes and coaches share training methodology, programming and recovery knowledge with serious lifters.
It reflects a conviction that runs through this whole company: better information produces better athletes, and a supplement is only ever one part of that.
Nobody has ever built a physique out of a tub.
CONTACT AND PARTNER WITH US
Company details
Registered entity | Fitamins Healthcare Private Limited |
Brand | The 5XL Nutrition |
GSTIN | 09AAFCF3205J1ZQ |
FSSAI Central Licence | 13322999001439 |
Manufacturing facility | Anita Road, Near Ajay Big Bazar, Kanina, Mahendragarh, Haryana – 123027, India |
Registered office | Anita Road, Kanina, Mahendragarh, Haryana – 123027 |
Get in touch
Customer support | +91 92895 37733 |
Dealership & distribution | +91 92895 37733 |
Support email | |
Business & partnerships | |
Support hours | Monday to Saturday, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM IST |
Response time | Most queries answered within 24-48 hours |
Become a distributor
We supply 579+ gyms, retailers and distributors across India. If you want to stock The 5XL Nutrition, call our dealership line on +91 92895 37733 or email – 5xlnutrition@gmail.com.
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