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For so work the honey-bees
Creatures that by a rule in nature
Teach the act of order
To a peopled kingdom.
They have a king
And officer of sorts.

Shakespeare, King Henry V
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Royal jelly


Shakespeare did not know, that the queen was the chief bee officer, royal jelly (RJ) being the wonderous food, produced by bees for raising her to live several years, while the nursing bees live in summer only 2-3 weeks, and 4-5 months in winter....

The food for the bee queen is produced by special management of the bee colonies. In one bee season a royal jelly beekeeper can produce about 500 g of this precious jelly.

Not only wonders for the bee hive

The main significance of royal jelly in nutrition lies in its functional health-promoting properties. The most important, all tested in cell and animal experiments, are:

  • Bio-stimulating and anti-fatigue

  • Activating the vegetative and central nervous system

  • Increases weight in many animals

  • Life prolonging and anti-stress and tranquilising in mice experiments

  • Anti-artheriosclerotic and heart-protecting

  • Antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal
  • Radiation-protective
  • Immuno-modulating and anti-cancerogenic
In medicine it is used most of all in pediatry and geriatry.


You can download for free the Royal Jelly Book if you are a member of the Bee Hexagon Knowledge Network (free membership offered). The book will be updated, look at the publication date.

The Royal Jelly Book
(contains also information on bee brood)

1. Harvest, Composition, Quality 15 January 2012
2. Nutrition and Health 15 January 2012



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