Royal Jelly is a natural substance from the bee hive that has been used by people throughout the world for energy, stamina, and vitality. Royal Jelly is composed of trace amounts of many wonderful nutrients and nutritious, biologically-active compounds. Some of the naturally occurring nutrients in Royal Jelly are:

• B complex vitamins
• amino acids (building blocks of protein)
• minerals like calcium, magnesium, potassium, and zinc
• lipids, including fatty acids and phospholipids
• peptides
• carbohydrates (monosaccharides and disaccharides)
• nucleic acids
• 10-HDA (a compound unique to Royal Jelly)

One of the reasons Royal Jelly is so precious is it can't be duplicated in a laboratory; it can only be hand harvested from beehives. We only use fresh Royal Jelly — straight from the bee hive — it’s not freeze dried like most other brands. We believe that using fresh Royal Jelly makes our product superior.

Bee Alive Royal Jelly is as close to nature as possible. Freeze-drying removes all the moisture from the product, thereby reducing it to a crystallized powder. By taking out this significant amount of moisture, we believe the quality of Royal Jelly is compromised. And, it has been shown that freeze-drying contributes to and accelerates the degradation of Royal Jelly over time. Royal Jelly is a very delicate substance and needs to be handled with care. At Bee-Alive we treat Royal Jelly with the same respect that nature does. That’s why we only use the highest quality non-freeze dried Royal Jelly in our Royal Jelly Energy and Essentials Dietary Supplements.

The Queen Bee’s story begins in the hive where each little bee starts out genetically identical. But, as nature would have it, only one bee is selected to feed on Royal Jelly … and that bee grows into a beautiful Queen Bee who lives for up to approximately six years. Worker bees, which eat only honey and pollen, live for approximately six weeks! The only difference between the two is the Royal Jelly.