Forbes India – Food, Ice Cream: Jash Shah: Making Healthy Desserts

Jash Shah mixed his love for ice cream and clear consuming to arrange Get-A-Whey
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Jash Shah, 26
Co-founder, Get-A-Whey

It’s in all probability true that a few of the biggest innovations occur in a kitchen. Living proof: Get-A-Whey ice cream. When Jash Shah, 26, and his sister, Pashmi, 30, needed to satiate their sugar craving with a wholesome various put up a exercise, their mom, Jimmy, 52, whipped up some protein ice cream, sowing the startup seed of their heads.

In 2018, the trio launched Get-A-Whey ice cream, an “outrageously wholesome but tasty” dessert, says Jash. Every scoop, he provides, is excessive in protein with 10 grams of protein per serving of 75 grams to 80 grams. It doesn’t include any added sugar and is made with actual components, he claims. He continues they use Erythritol, an natural sweetener with zero energy and sugars, normally present in melons and grapes. “I really like figuring out and having protein. We’re a household that believes in clear consuming, however I additionally love ice cream. You’ll by no means discover my fridge with out it,” says Jash, co-founder.

Tricks to run a enterprise from their mother and father who handle their very own ventures, and expertise in advertising and marketing and gross sales from their earlier jobs gave them sufficient leverage to set foot on the earth of entrepreneurship.

“Whereas learning mechanical engineering, I knew it’s not one thing I needed a profession in. I used to be positive I needed to do one thing by myself,” says Jash. Every single day in enterprise has been a studying. “Each entrepreneur will agree that there are extra lows than highs to start with,” he provides.   

Getting constructive evaluations from celebrities and nutritionists have been the highs, whereas the lows have been being rejected in retail shops to start with. “With out bodily presence, it turns into tough to create an online brand, particularly in a market like India,” explains Jash.

After crusing by means of the early hiccups, the corporate has clocked in a income of ₹5 crore until date. It has expanded to Pune, Nagpur, Surat, Ahmedabad, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Chennai and Bengaluru after initially being solely in Mumbai. Just lately, it even managed to bag a deal on Shark Tank India, value ₹1 crore, for a 15 % fairness and roped in three sharks—Aman Gupta, co-founder and CMO of boAt, Ashneer Grover, founder and MD, Bharatpe, and Vineeta Singh, CEO of Sugar Cosmetics.

Wholesome desserts might now not be an oxymoron, however nutritionists warn diabetics to examine their blood glucose ranges after attempting merchandise that market itself as being low on sugar or that use pure alternate options.  “Erythritol primarily is a sugar alcohol. It’s a powdered crystal which is about 100 occasions sweeter than sugar. It’s an ingredient that passes by means of the physique with out getting absorbed or damaged down, which is why it has zero energy. As of now there are not any confirmed unwanted side effects, however sure individuals might expertise gastric points due to its lack of ability to get digested,” says Dr Siddhant Bhargava, health and dietary scientist, and co-founder of Meals Darzee. “The ice cream might have nominal ranges of carbohydrates and sugar, however having mentioned that, simply because it’s ‘more healthy’ it doesn’t imply one can devour many at one go.”