Royal Jelly- The new guide to nature's richest health food

The unique properties of fresh Royal Jelly are now widely appreciated. But did you know that Royal Jelly was popularised in the West by our very own Irene Stein 30 years ago.In fact, Royal Jelly has been used to promote health and vitality for centuries by the Chinese who found this remarkable substance to be so effective that they actually have hospitals that only use Bee Products for treating patients. But what is Royal Jelly? Royal Jelly is the miraculous foodstuff responsible for the mutation of an ordinary bee egg into a Queen. Royal Jelly is a substance that has the approximate consistency, colour and appearance of condensed milk with a cheesy smell. Royal Jelly is actually the milk of worker bees - a glandular secretion like the milk of mammals. Worker bees develop from fertilized eggs laid in small cells; the egg that will develop into a queen is indistinguishable from a worker egg at the time it is laid, the only difference is in the shape of the cell - which is larger. By the time of birth however, the queen is larger and different anatomically. The only reason for this difference is Royal Jelly. Worker bee larvae and queen bee larvae are both fed on a diet of Royal Jelly at the start of their lives. After 3 days, the workers are changed to a mixture of royal jelly, honey and pollen whilst in contrast the future queen continues to receive a rich diet of pure Royal Jelly. The result of the queen's mono diet is her metamorphosis from a mere worker bee into true Royalty. Because of her Royal Jelly diet, the Queen grows to THREE TIMES the size of a normal worker bee. The life span of the Queen can be up to 6 years compared to only 5 or 6 weeks for a worker bee. Not only that, the queen lays between 2 and 3 thousand eggs per day - the equivalent of the average hen laying 60 to 70 in a 24 hour period.