Bee products from Forever
Bees make honey, gather pollen, feed their queen with royal jelly and seal their hive with propolis. Forever makes a product from each of them. We will walk you through them, from the hive to the jar.
1 · Honey
Inside the hive, bees turn nectar into honey: their store for later. Forever's honey comes from the high mountains of Spain.
Enjoy the sweet, rich and mellow taste of 100% natural honey from the mountains. Add this pure product to your meals or to your tea.
2 · Pollen
Bees roll pollen grains and nectar into small pellets. They use them to feed the young inhabitants of the hive. Forever collects these pellets in a special collection system that hangs at the entrance of the hive, so the product stays pure.
Benefit in every season from this special natural product and enjoy the power of bee pollen in an easy-to-take tablet.
* Health claim pending European authorisation.
View in the webshop (Forever Bee Pollen)3 · Royal jelly
Young worker bees produce royal jelly: a rich, milky substance that is fed to the queen bee.
Royal Jelly is a unique milky substance that bees make especially to feed the queen. It contains amino acids, complex enzymes, vitamins and trace elements.
4 · Propolis
Bees collect resin from the leaves, buds and bark of trees, mostly poplars. They use it to seal every gap in the hive. The name says it all: pro polis, “before the city”.
Propolis is the substance bees collect and use to protect their hives. Combined with honey and royal jelly, propolis is a good addition to your daily diet.
A rich blend of aloe vera, bee propolis and chamomile extracts. With multiple amino acids, vitamin complexes A and E and valuable structural building blocks.
From hive to jar
What Forever itself says about where its bee products come from.
Forever Bee Honey is harvested in the high mountains of Spain, without artificial colourings, flavourings or fragrances.
Bee pollen is collected in a special collection system at the entrance of the hive. When a bee flies in, the pollen grains fall from her legs into the collection tray.
Forever Royal Jelly comes from pesticide-free areas and is subject to the strictest quality controls.
Did you know?
A bee colony has one queen, up to 35,000 workers in summer and a few hundred drones.
Source: Wageningen University & ResearchIn summer a worker bee lives four to six weeks. A winter bee lives six to eight months.
Source: Wageningen University & ResearchBees collect nectar up to 13 kilometres from the hive.
Source: Wageningen University & ResearchFor one pound of honey (454 grams), bees visit about two million flowers and together fly roughly 80,000 kilometres.
Source: Canadian Honey CouncilA worker bee makes about one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her whole life.
Source: NBC News / National Honey BoardWith the waggle dance, a bee tells her sisters in which direction and how far away the flowers are. Karl von Frisch received the Nobel Prize for this discovery in 1973.
Source: Nobelprize.orgThe hexagon is the shape that creates the most storage space with the least wax. This was only proven mathematically in 1999.
Source: Thomas C. Hales, The Honeycomb ConjectureThe Netherlands has around 360 bee species. The honey bee is just one of them.
Source: Wageningen University & ResearchWell-sealed honey keeps for a very long time: it contains little water and is naturally acidic.
Source: Smithsonian MagazineBees and our food
About three quarters of the crops that provide fruit or seeds for our food depend at least partly on pollinators, bees among them.
Think of apples, pears, cherries, strawberries and courgettes: without pollination there is less fruit. Cereals such as wheat, rice and maize do not need bees; they are pollinated by the wind.
A varied plate with fruit and vegetables therefore owes a lot to bees. A flowering garden or balcony box gives them a helping hand.
Source: FAOTo be honest
We promise nothing about your health on this page, and that is deliberate. In Europe, a food may only carry a health claim once that claim has been authorised at European level, after an assessment by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
For honey, propolis and royal jelly there is no authorised health claim. For bee pollen, three claims are still awaiting European authorisation; they are shown above, with an asterisk.
Bee products do not prevent, reduce or cure diseases, infections, conditions, allergies or physical complaints.
Honey is mostly sugar. According to the Netherlands Nutrition Centre (Voedingscentrum), honey is not healthier than ordinary sugar. Enjoy it for the taste, in moderation.
Source: VoedingscentrumBee products are not for everyone. We would rather tell you this up front.
A food supplement is not a substitute for a varied, balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle.
Bee pollen consists of small pellets of pollen and nectar that bees use to feed the young inhabitants of the hive. Royal jelly is the milky substance young worker bees make to feed the queen. Propolis is mostly resin, which bees use to seal the gaps in their hive.
Forever Bee Pollen, Forever Royal Jelly and Forever Bee Propolis are food supplements in tablet form. Forever Bee Honey is simply honey, for bread or tea. Aloe Propolis Crème is a cream for the skin.
Forever Bee Propolis contains soy and almonds. And all five products come from the bee: if you are allergic to bee products, please read the section above first.
That is called crystallisation. Light and strong temperature fluctuations cause honey to crystallise. So store your honey in a cool, dry and dark place.
Once opened, in the refrigerator at a maximum of 7 °C. Close the jar properly.
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