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What Can Bees Do For You?

Thanks to bees, people can taste the sweetness of honey and enjoy the health benefits as well.

Honey is a great source of nutrition. It contains many enzymes, vitamins, minerals and amino acids, as well as fructose, glucose, and water. Honey makes a good alternative to sugar in food and beverages.

In addition, honey also contains antioxidants that can fight free radicals from human body. Free radicals are molecules that attack healthy cells.

Honey can also help seasonal pollen allergies. Consuming a teaspoonful of honey a day for a few months may boost your immune system before allergy season.

Bees are a very helpful insect. They don’t only produce honey, they produce the following as well:

Royal Jelly – This is the most nutritious food for the queen bees throughout her life. Luckily, humans can consume some of it too. Its tastes a little bit bitter, but has so many benefits. It’s rich in vitamins, minerals, proteins, amino acid and antibiotics.

Beeswax – It’s a product from the abdomen of the worker bees. Worker bees have some glands on the inner sides of the ventral shield or plate of each segment of the body. The beeswax is useful to make lipstick, capsule, balm, body lotion, candles or as a wood polish or floor polish.

Bee Pollen – Bee pollen may provide more vitality in life. It can also stimulate organs and glands, rejuvenate us, and help bring about a longer life span.

As you can see, all the products made by the bees can be beneficial for our health!