As a family beekeeper, a real practitioner, I have also personally consumed royal jelly for several years, and only with my personal experience and feedback from customers eating royal jelly to answer the questions related to royal jelly.
What is royal jelly?
Royal jelly, also known as royal jelly, royal jelly, royal jelly, bee milk, is the secretion of the pharyngeal gland of young worker bees who cultivate larvae in bee nests, is the food for the larvae that will become queen bees, and is also the lifelong food of the queen bee. Royal jelly is a kind of milk secreted by young adult bees after eating pollen, this milk is like mammalian milk and has great nutritional value and immune function and contains a very high longevity factor, bees and queen bees are the same at the egg stage, after hatching to eat royal jelly for three days after eating honey and pollen of adult bees, after hatching has been eating royal jelly into a queen bee. Royal jelly is nutritionally high and the price is much higher than that of other bee products.
Bees are social creatures, and if we follow our human system and its correspondence, bees should belong to a slave society, and there is only one queen bee in a nest of bees, and the other bees serve it, and the queen's food is royal jelly.
Worker bees secrete royal jelly mainly to feed larvae aged 1-3 days (larvae become queens if they eat royal jelly all the time), which is the same as babies within one year of age who need to eat breast milk. The queen bee eats royal jelly all her life, and royal jelly is its main food source, so the queen bee is physically strong and has a lifespan of up to several years. After 3 days of age, the larvae that cannot eat royal pulp and eat honey pollen will become worker bees, and their life expectancy is only less than one month during the blooming period. Therefore, the royal jelly is not secreted by the queen himself, but the food secreted by the worker bee to eat for her. Worker bees secrete royal jelly and need to eat a large amount of honey pollen, so that the nutritional value of royal jelly can also be determined, which is similar to milk eating grass and producing milk.
What kind of people is royal jelly suitable for?
Royal jelly is very nutritious, can improve immunity, improve sleep, often work overtime to stay up late energy, bad spirit is very suitable for eating royal jelly, menopausal women can also eat, royal jelly in the conditioning of endocrine, qi and blood, skin maintenance and other aspects are very good, the elderly can also eat, royal jelly has a strong anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effect, protect the liver and blood vessels, assist in regulating blood glucose and lipids.
There is also a very interesting, is the royal jelly can treat mouth ulcers, the specific method is to gargle, take a few grams of fresh royal jelly, directly in the mouth, one or two minutes after swallowing, twice a day, I used to soak in the mouth with a few times on the good, but there is a point is that just began to take royal jelly will feel very painful, but the effect is good, endure can pass, the other mention is that if the life where the injury, with royal jelly can be applied, good special fast, beyond alcohol iodine, The only drawback is that it hurts when just applied to the wound. The royal pulp acid in royal jelly has stronger antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, analgesic help, and can inhibit the growth of more than ten kinds of bacteria such as E. coli, suppuration, cocci, epidermophytes, and tuberculosis bacteria.
Royal jelly especially needs to be mentioned that royal jelly contains hydroxydecanoic acid, is a special unsaturated organic acid, many properties of royal jelly such as odor, PH value, etc. are related to it. Since this acid is not found in any other substance in nature, it is only present in royal jelly, so it is also called royal pulp acid, royal jelly also contains a lot of glycine, protein, fat, vitamins, folic acid, and similar acetylcholine-like substances, which are highly nutritious sources of royal jelly.
How to eat royal jelly as well?
Royal jelly is generally better taken on an empty stomach before meals in the morning or before bedtime in the evening. Taking it on an empty stomach before meals can make the macromolecular components such as proteins and peptides in royal jelly easy to digest, decompose and absorb, and also facilitate the absorption of various other small molecule components in royal jelly faster and more fully. Adults generally take 10 grams at a time, but it is necessary to pay attention to the fact that friends with weak stomach can reduce the dosage and change to eat after meals to avoid eating on an empty stomach and irritating the stomach and intestines.
Royal jelly eating methods are many kinds, there are direct servings, there is water to take, the taste of royal jelly is mainly concentrated in sour, astringent, spicy above, some customers can accept, some customers buy back at the beginning of not adapting to the taste, but the solution is there, but also very simple and good operation, is to mix with honey into royal jelly honey to eat, honey sweetness can greatly alleviate the sour and spicy taste of royal jelly, generally with a spoonful of pulp two spoons of honey, or a pound of royal jelly and 2-5 kg of honey together into a large bottle stirred and mixed and then frozen, can be, Royal jelly and honey mixed can significantly reduce the spicy taste, the taste is better, in theory, the more the proportion of honey royal jelly the taste is less obvious, this is the way customers can adapt to habits, including my own usual consumption of royal jelly, I eat myself is to directly eat a spoon or two spoonfuls of stirred royal jelly honey, insist on eating, a great harvest is basically not sick, royal jelly can significantly improve the body's immunity and resistance, I eat royal jelly myself because of the previous flu, 18 years because of the flu ravaging I coughed once, it took a lot of effort to recover, that year our village, township hospital village clinic is basically full, and then I began to eat royal jelly, has been insisting on it so far, ate for several years, never had such a situation again.
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What do royal jelly usually need to pay attention to?
Because royal jelly has the characteristics of being afraid of light and heat, it is most taboo to take boiling water, especially the royal jelly needs to be stored at low temperature in the refrigerator, not at room temperature. Royal jelly although the nutrition is very high, but the consumption of royal jelly and see the effect is not overnight, is not simply to eat a few days to have an effect, royal jelly is not a medicine, as a nutritional tonic, need to insist on eating for a long time, simply eat a few spoonfuls will not improve sleep to improve immunity, so reiterate that the next consumption of royal jelly does not have to eat much every day, but in the often eat, do not forget to eat, adhere to long-term consumption, will be beneficial.
Royal jelly is not suitable for what kind of people to eat?
(1) People with allergies. That is, people who usually eat seafood are prone to allergies or often have drug allergies. Because royal jelly contains hormones, enzymes, and heterosexual proteins.
(2) Long-term hypotension and hypoglycemia. Royal jelly contains substances similar to acetylcholine, and acetylcholine has the effect of assisting in regulating blood pressure and blood sugar, so hypertension blood glucose and hyperlipidemia can eat royal jelly, and hypotension and blood glucose are not suitable.
(3) Intestinal dysfunction and poor gastrointestinal disorders. Because royal jelly can cause strong contractions in the intestinal tract, induce intestinal dysfunction, resulting in diarrhea, constipation and other symptoms.
(4) Pregnant women, children and adolescents are not recommended to consume royal jelly
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