One of the newest trends in natural health circles — royal jelly — is actually extremely old. In ancient China, it was called "the food of emperors." Over in India, rulers ate it to feel younger and ...

ROYAL jelly 1 is the sole food administered by young workers or nurse bees of the common honey bee species Apis mellifica to female larvæ destined to become queens. Larvæ destined to become drones ...

In honeybee society, the monarch doesn’t break bread with the plebes. Even as a larva, the queen bee gets the exact same specially prepared dish delivered to her regularly by “nurse” bees, and in time ...

Honeybee larvae develop into queen bees if they are fed large quantities of a food called royal jelly. But royal jelly does more than determine whether a larva becomes a queen: it also keeps her ...