Bee Bread

Bee bread is also known as Perga, Ambrosia, Food of the Gods, or even the Formula of Life – Food of the Gods was a title given to Bee Bread by the ancient Greeks.

Bee Bread is made of bee pollen collected by honey bee workers. Before the bee worker goes to collect pollen, she supplies herself with a little honey from the hive, but this is far away from being their lunch ???? As bee sisters fly from bloom to bloom, they comb the pollen very quickly and slightly moisturize it with a saliva-honey mixture and then they move it into baskets on their hind legs called corbiculae. Back at the hive, bees deposit their pollen pellets close to the cells where bee larvae are growing.

Then other bees – very young bee workers – come along to add honey and some of their saliva to the pollen to make each pellet of bee bread protein-rich then the mixture is compacted in the hexagonal cells of the honeycomb and undergoes a very important process – lactic fermentation under anaerobic conditions, which makes it completely resistant to mold and rot. Fermentation of bee bread takes around 7 days and once it is over it is ready to eat!