Bee bread - a source of bee protein

Bee bread is a wonderful product of nature. Its composition is so rich that scientists cannot fully identify it. So far, vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other beneficial substances have been listed in various proportions. Apparently, it is no coincidence that the bees keep their bread on the ground floor of the hive, where the lady of the house is also located.

What is bee bread?

Although it is not a true rye bread, the fermentation process means that you will definitely taste the sweet and sour flavour of rye bread when you taste it. This is thanks to a special production technology developed by bees. Bee bread is actually pollen preserved in honey. When the bees return to the hive with their pollen carriers, they compress them into honeycomb meshes, fill them with honey and cover them with wax. Yes pollen becomes a reservoir of food preserved in honey, waiting to be used. The fermentation process allows the bees' bread to absorb the nutrients much better than pollen.

The bee bread must be dried before it can reach your home. Improper drying can ruin this bee miracle. To preserve the good qualities of bee bread in our apiary, we dry it in special drying ovens at hive temperature for two days. Slowly dried, the bread remains soft, flavourful and easy to chew, even for the smallest honey lovers. For more information visit Benefits, properties and consumption of bee bread described in our blog post.

How to use bee bread?

Although bee bread is classed as a food, we certainly do not recommend that you eat it instead of lunch. It is better as a dessert or snack, a teaspoon a day, and for the little ones as many grains as they are a year old. Bee bread can be chewed, sucked or even made into morning tea, without which we cannot imagine a single morning.

Find out how to make morning tea here: Morning tea.

Storing bee bread

Although bee bread is not a perishable product, it is best stored in a cooler place. This way it will not lose both its taste and its consistency.

Bee bread is not only the valuable fruit of the bees' toil, it is also very tasty! Taste and thinkMaybe it will change your usual, but not so healthy, snacking habits or become part of your morning ritual.

The scientific sources we used:

1. Mărgăoan R, Stranț M, Varadi A, et al. Bee Collected Pollen and Bee Bread: Bioactive Constituents and Health Benefits. Antioxidants (Basel). 2019;8(12):568. Published 2019 Nov 20. doi:10.3390/antiox8120568