Royal jelly or gelée royale is the most precious gift of the beehive. It is produced by young nurse bees that are five to twelve days old. It is fed to the queen bee, who is responsible for the survival of the species her entire life. The queen bee is a genetic equal of other bees. But feeding her exclusively royal jelly makes her grow twice the size of worker bees and outlive 15 generations of bees. It is the only sexually mature bee in the beehive. The queen bee is believed to be the most fertile living being, laying up to 3000 eggs per day, with the weight of the total eggs outweighing her. Royal jelly has been used already by pharaohs in Ancient Egypt, and they named it “the food of gods”. However, today we know its uniqueness is based on the unsaturated fatty acid 10 HDA (10-hydroxy-2-decenoic acid), found exclusively in royal jelly. The quantity of 10 HDA is an important quality factor for royal jelly.
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