What Is A Superfood?
A Superfood is a rare occurence in nature. It is when a food source is produced which is Highly Concentrated, with a Complex Supply of Quality Nutrients. Bee Pollen is the most famous Superfood. Because Bee Pollen is the reproductive spore of the plant, it is incredibly dense with plant nutrients. The phytonutrients found in Bee Pollen number in the thousands. These include bioactive compounds like enzymes, bioflavonoids, phytosterols and carotenoids. Bee Pollen also contains free amino acids, fatty acids with a good proportion of Omega 3's, naturally chelated minerals and whole vitamin complexes.
Why Supplement With Superfoods?
Lately, doctors have been telling us about the benefits of eating raw fruits and vegetables every day. Research studies that compared the benefits of raw
fruits and vegetables to vitamin and mineral supplements found that whole foods, with their whole vitamin complexes and extensive phytonutrient profiles, outperformed single ingredient supplements like vitamins. The researchers concluded that either there are unidentified nutrients present in raw fruits and vegetables that help increase the benefits (synergistically?) of the vitamins and minerals found in whole foods, or there are nutrients that benefit the body in unknown ways on their own.
That is why superfoods are the best supplements for you and your family! Bee Pollen provides an incredibly complex supply of raw, unprocessed nutrients.
The Queen Bee?
A queen honeybee is a very special creature. The queen is the mother of all of the bees of the beehive. There is only one queen in a colony of honeybees that may number up to 80,000 members. She may live several years, but worker bees live only a few weeks to 50 days. Without constant egg-laying by the queen the bee colony would soon die. Genetically speaking, the queen is responsible for contributing her own characteristics, (along with the male drones), to the bees of the hive. Thus, the bees of the hive are, indeed, "made from the same mold" as the queen.
One of the most important functions of the queen is to enforce the social order of the hive. She does this by her very presence! "Queen Substance" is a pheromone that the queen secretes to let the member bees know that all is well in the hive. Pheromones are chemical substances secreted by the body that like members of the same species recognize and respond to. Bees in a colony "share" the queen's pheromones among themselves, and thus recognize fellow members, as well as identify intruders. The absence of a queen causes obvious "distress" among bees of the colony. These bees act much differently than bees in a hive with an active queen.
What makes the queen so different from other members of the Hive?
The answer is
Royal Jelly
Biologists interested in nutrition point to the
queen as an example of how diet can make an
incredible difference in the development of an
animal. The only difference between a queen bee
and a worker bee is that the queen eats Royal
Jelly for the whole duration of her life, while
the worker bees eat Royal Jelly for only the
first three days of its larval stage. The Royal
Jelly diet accounts for some rather remarkable
differences in the physiology and behavior of
the queen.
The queen bee
is different from a normal worker bee in many
ways. The queen lives forty times longer than a
worker bee, up to five or six years, and grows
to be 40% larger. She can lay thousands of eggs
every day. The queen has no wax glands, which
the workers use to form the comb cells of the
hive, and she has no pollen baskets on her legs.
Her stinger is shaped differently, and while she
has glands in her head (pharyngeal) region, they
secrete much different substances than the
workers. Worker bees are not sexually active,
but the queen, as pointed out before, needs to
be quite prolific to keep the hive populated.
Royal Jelly is
produced by the nurse bees. Nurse bees are
special worker bees that attend the queen and
the babies, or larvae, of the hive. Would you
like to meet the Nurse Bee?
Read
the CC Pollen Beehive Tour
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The price is $80.00 per kilo - plus shipping and handling.
