What is the difference between royal jelly and regular honey?

Honey is made from anthers collected by worker bees, while royal jelly is secreted after the peak.

Royal jelly and regular honey are mainly distinguished by chemical composition, production methods, uses, taste, and physical shape.

First, the difference in chemical composition

The main component of royal jelly is water, which accounts for about 65% of honey, followed by protein, which accounts for about 11%-15%, carbohydrates 16%, lipids 6%, ash 2%, and undetermined substances 3%;

The main component of honey is sugar, which accounts for about 75% of honey, followed by substances such as water, protein, vitamins, minerals and amino acids.

Second, the difference in production methods

Royal jelly is a milky substance secreted by the laryngeal glands after the worker bees consume honey and bee pollen, which is completely secreted by the bees themselves;

Honey is the product of bee processing after the nectar of plants collected by bees is mixed with their own substances.

3. Differences in use

Royal jelly is the food for the first three days of the worker bee and the queen bee for life;

Honey is the food stored by bees and, along with bee pollen, is the food of the entire colony.

Fourth, the difference in taste

The taste of royal jelly is sour, astringent, and has a faint sweetness;

Sweetness is the main taste of honey, followed by the floral aroma of the nectar plant.

5. The difference between physical shapes

The physical state of royal jelly is milky, generally milky yellow-white;

Fresh honey is in a liquid state, after a long time will crystallize to become solid, the vast majority of liquid honey is amber, the color is dark and light, there are a few colorless and transparent honey varieties, most of the honey is white after crystallization, and some honey is dark yellow after crystallization.

Honey is made by bees collecting nectar, and royal jelly is a special milky pulp substance secreted by the royal jelly glands in the head of worker bees to feed the queen bee and larvae. There is a big difference between regular honey and royal jelly.

First of all, the appearance of the two is quite different, most of the common honey is liquid, due to the different nectar source plants, the color is different, from water white to deep amber. Royal jelly is milky white or yellowish, resembling cream, and is generally frozen and solid.

More importantly, there is a certain gap between the nutritional value of the two.

Royal jelly, also known as royal jelly, royal jelly, bee milk, royal milk, etc., is secreted by the maxillary glands and tongue glands of 5 15-day-old worker bees, and is used to feed the queen bee and larvae of the pulp substance, the color is milky white to light yellow, with sour, astringent, spicy taste. Royal jelly is a natural product that is directly taken out of the artificial king platform by beekeeping producers, and immediately preserved by low temperature freezing without any additives, which is one of the main products of bees, and has obvious tonic and health care effects on the human body.

Honey is honey honey with a tongue straw to absorb nectar from the flower apparatus and nectar glands of the source plant, bring it back to the hive, spit the nectar into the hive from the honey sac, and then inhale and spit out repeatedly through the bee, and store the nectar mixed with the invertase secreted by the honey sac in the nest. Under the action of enzymes, the polysaccharides in the nectar are decomposed into glucose and fructose, the water is reduced to about 20, and the mature honey is basically formed.

The difference between royal jelly and honey is: different properties, different nutrients, and different tastes.

First, the nature is different.

1. Royal jelly: Royal jelly is the secretion of the pharyngeal glands of young worker bees that cultivate larvae in the honey hive, which is the food for the larvae that will become the queen bee, and the food for the queen bee for life.

2. Honey: Honey is a natural sweet substance that bees collect from the flowers of flowering plants and brew them in the hive.

Second, the nutritional content is different.

1. Royal jelly: Royal jelly contains a variety of essential amino acids, vitamins, royal jelly acid, trace elements and acetylcholine and other rich nutrients and active ingredients, and almost all the nutrients required by the human body.

2. Honey: Honey contains a variety of nutrients such as glucose, fructose, amino acids, vitamins, minerals and enzymes.

Third, the taste is different.

1. Royal jelly: Royal jelly tastes sour, spicy, pungent and astringent, and is not very palatable.

2. Honey: Honey is sweet and refreshing, with the unique floral fragrance of nectar source plants.

Encyclopedia – Royal Jelly.

Encyclopedia – Honey.