Royal Jelly | Bee Pollen Blog

One of the questions we are asked most often relates to the debate of fresh liquid royal jelly versus powdered form – which is most beneficial, which is most nutritious?
First lets look at the facts.
Royal jelly, as we’ve discussed elsewhere, can be taken from the hive and processed or it can be taken from the hive and pasteurized, then further processed. It’s important to know which version of royal jelly you are consuming.
For example, if your product is pasteurized then delivered to you in liquid form, marketed as “fresh, non-lyophilized royal jelly” – well, technically the marketing blurb is correct, but what about the pasteurization stage?…don’t you think that applying heat to the substance would do great harm? We do, and it does.
Then, what about taking fresh, liquid royal jelly and lyophilizing it without any pasteurization. So we take the fresh liquid and we pass cold air across it to evaporate the moisture (water). What is left is basically a concentrated powder that has had no heat exposure other than cold air.
Now we have a potent powder with all the nutrients locked in.
Doesn’t that sound better than something which has been pasteurized and promoted as “Fresh liquid royal jelly”? well it is.

So be extremely careful and try to research and understand exactly what it is that you are getting.