Bee Products

Pollen is a bee product gathered by worker honey bees from flowers of plants, mainly entomphilous ones. It is distinguished by its high content of B group vitamins, monosaccharides and po-lysaccharides, as well as amino acids, including arginine. It has antiaggregation (anticoagulant) effects. It also contains other nutritive and biologically active substances.

Propolis, also called bee glue, is a balsamic and resinous substance gathered by worker honey bees from buds of poplars, birches and other deciduous and coniferous trees. It is composed of a number of biologically active substances showing very strong bacteri-cidal and analgesic effects.

Royal jelly is a product made by adult worker bees for the nourishment of the queen and bee larvae in the first three days of their lives.

Beebread is pollen gathered by honey bees, mixed with ho-ney and a secretion from the bees' salivary glands, stored in a honeycomb cells and subjected to milk fermentation in anaerobic conditions in the bees' hive.