HONEY OF A MILLION FLOWERS (multifloral honey) is the most popular choice for everyday consumption. It has a golden-yellow colour and a pleasant aroma. Its flavour depends on the season and the flowers, and it is sweeter than forest honey. Since it is made from hundreds of medicinal plants, its effects are exceptionally broad.
ROYAL JELLY and its powerful effects have been known since ancient times – its benefits were appreciated even by the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, who considered it the wonder of all wonders. It is the only food for queen bee larvae, thanks to which an ordinary bee evolves into a sexually mature, long-lived queen. It is secreted by nurse bees from their special glands, and obtaining it requires exceptional beekeeping knowledge and a great deal of effort.
It is recognised by its pale-yellow colour, sour-bitter taste, distinctive aroma and thick texture similar to condensed milk. With its naturally rich composition, royal jelly strengthens, stimulates, regenerates and detoxifies the human body, restoring lost psychophysical vitality and energy.
BEE BREAD or PERGA is the highest-quality material you can obtain from a hive, as it represents “the meal that a bee makes for itself”. Namely, a bee does not consume fresh pollen; instead, it stores pollen granules in empty honeycomb cells and mixes them with its digestive enzymes, nectar and wax, adding a drop of honey on top and sealing it all. This mixture undergoes a fermentation process, and after 3 months, PERGA is formed!
FLOWER POLLEN represents the male reproductive cells of plants that bees collect and shape into small, colourful granules. It is rightfully called one of the most complete foods in nature because it contains almost all the nutrients that the human body needs for life, growth and proper functioning.
Fresh flower pollen provides an exceptional combination of proteins, free amino acids and enzymes that the human body can fully and easily absorb. Due to its extremely high concentration of beta-carotene (provitamin A), pollen contains up to 20 times more carotene than carrots, which are otherwise considered the main raw material for the industrial production of this important antioxidant.
PROPOLIS is a resinous, sticky substance with a pleasant aroma that mainly consists of various plant resins.
For bees, propolis serves as a medicine and is used for disinfecting and protecting the hive from unwanted external influences.
Propolis is a substance that bees collect from resinous buds of various flowers and leaves. Bees use it to coat the inner walls of the hive, fill gaps, repair honeycombs and disinfect honeycomb cells. The ancient Egyptians already knew about its properties, and famous ancient writers also wrote about it.
Propolis has a distinctive smell and taste reminiscent of resin.
BEESWAX is hard, opaque and has a pleasant aroma. It smells of the honey from the plant on which the nectar was collected, but the scent is lost after prolonged storage. It has no taste, is not sticky, and is light yellow in colour, but as it ages, it turns dark yellow. Beeswax is a product that bees create inside their bodies using wax glands. Worker bees shape it by chewing and use it to build honeycombs.
📜 Expert source and recommendation: Dr. Peter Kapš – "Apitherapy – Treatment with Bee Products"