Why is it not easy to deteriorate after the perishable pollen is brewed into bee food?
Bees can collect and brew honey pollen, but some people may not understand what bee food is. If you want to ask what the larvae of bees eat, many people may say that they eat pollen. But I said that bee food is the food for larvae, and pollen cannot be eaten by larvae and young bees.
This may confuse many people, what is bee food? Where does bee food come from? What is the nutritional value of bee food? What is bee food?
What is bee food?Why do bees make bee food?
Why do bees brew bee food?
The so-called bee pollen is the pollen granules collected by bees from the pistils of plants, coated with digestive enzymes, twisted into balls and brought back to the hive. When there is a lot of pollen, beekeepers install pollinators on the nest door to intercept pollen balls, collect them and dry them in the sun. This kind of bee pollen has not been brewed by bees, and it contains a lot of water, and the main components of pollen are fat and protein, which are easy to deteriorate. Therefore, the collected fresh bee pollen must be fully dried, sealed and stored, and kept in a low-temperature and dry place for about one year without deterioration. Such bee pollen becomes dry and hard granules after drying, and its nutritional value will be lost. It is not so convenient to eat, and it is easy to deteriorate if you don't pay attention.
Therefore, in order to keep pollen from deteriorating for a long time, facilitate digestion and absorption, and ensure the development of larvae and young bees, worker bees brew the collected pollen into bee food, which becomes a real good food for bee colonies.
The worker bees collect the pollen and put them into the hive. The brewing bees in the hive will crush the pollen, and then mix a certain amount of honey and digestive enzymes to make the pollen humidity normal and the ratio of honey and digestive enzymes to be appropriate. , and then head-tamped and kept in the hive. In this way, the collected pollen clusters are brewed and extruded in the hive layer by layer and stored in the hive, which becomes the bee food that can be preserved for a long time. Because bee food is mixed with honey and digestive enzymes, it can help the pollen to ferment, break the pollen particle wall and digest and absorb it, and the lactic acid bacteria produced have a strong antibacterial function, and can keep the perishable pollen from deteriorating for a long time. In this way, the pollen mixed with honey and digestive enzymes becomes bee food, which is convenient for larvae to digest and absorb, and can provide nutrients such as protein. Also because of the brewing of bees, the pollen that cannot be preserved at room temperature can be stored for a long time, and slowly left for the bee colony to eat.
Now everyone understands that bee food is fermented and brewed by bees mixing pollen with honey digestive enzymes. The bee food brewed by bees and stored in the hive is different from ordinary pollen.
