1, different manufacturing methods

Royal jelly is the slurry secreted from the throat gland after worker bees eat honey and bee pollen, and honey is a natural sweet substance brewed by bees collecting nectar and mixing their own substances. The main ingredient of royal jelly is protein except water, while the main ingredient of honey is sugar.

2, the appearance is different

Honey is a viscous liquid, usually amber. Honey is solid after crystallization, and royal jelly is white or yellow-white paste.

3. Different tastes

The taste of royal jelly is very bad, showing a spicy, sour, astringent and slightly sweet taste. The taste of honey is mainly sweet, as well as the floral fragrance of honey plants.

4. Different functions

The purpose of honey brewing is to store grain (the grain of bees), and honey is for most bees in the bee colony to eat; Royal jelly is for bee larvae and queen bees born less than three days, so it is called royal jelly.

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1, royal jelly

Royal jelly, also known as royal jelly, royal jelly, royal jelly, and royal jelly, is the secretion of pharyngeal glands of young worker bees that cultivate larvae in bee nests, and it is the food for the larvae to become queen bees, and it is also the food for the queen bees for life.

Royal jelly is a kind of milk secreted by young and middle-aged bees after eating pollen. This kind of milk, like mammalian milk, has great nutritional value and immune function. Bees (worker bees or drones) and queen bees are the same in the egg stage. Eat royal jelly for three days after hatching, and eat honey and pollen to grow into a queen bee. After hatching, they have been eating royal jelly and growing into queen bees. The life span of bees (worker bees or drones) is one to six months, while queen bees usually live for five to seven years because they have been eating royal jelly.

The color of royal jelly varies slightly according to the pollen eaten by bees, and is generally divided into milky white and yellowish.

2. honey

Honey is nectar collected by bees from flowers of flowering plants and brewed in hives.

Bees take nectar or secretions with water content of about 75% from plant flowers and store them in the second stomach. Under the action of various transformations in the body, after 15 days, when various vitamins, minerals and amino acids are enriched to a certain value, the polysaccharide in nectar is simultaneously transformed into monosaccharide glucose and fructose which can be directly absorbed by the human body, and the water content is less than 23%, which is stored in the nest and sealed with beeswax.

Honey is a supersaturated solution of sugar, which will crystallize at low temperature, glucose will crystallize, and fructose is the main part that does not crystallize.

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