@@vdias No way, most ppl don't even care about nutrients. Remember when pink sauce got popular and it's rotten milk. As long as it's RARE or VIRAL. That's all that matters.
For those who aren't aware, it isn't ordinary honey bees that are hurting the most, although they have taken a hit. The real threat is the global collapse of solitary bee populations, which take care of a significantly larger portion of their local ecosystem than honey bees do. Very few people actually know this and hearing so many channels talking about the threats to honey bees is discouraging, because the only reason they're the ones being propped up is because we profit from them. I wish more creators and public representatives took notice of solitary bees and tried to find methods to help.
Yes, and not just solitary bees other pollinators are also on decline for various reasons. Honey bees can also be detrimental to the ecosystem, since humans replace native plants with food crops and farmed honey bees that pollinates those crops ending up outcompeting native pollinators. Few methods i can think of to help native pollinators is by not using insecticides, plant native plants and or let your land grows wild plants (and let the ecological succession happens), abolishing monoculture practices and shift to polyculture (like food forest), etc.
It seems like bees require wild flowers and mushrooms to survive. Loss of forests is creating an environment with less mushrooms and it's causing health issues within many hives but mostly commercial hives
@@morgana8037 watch the video I pasted below and you'll be shown "what's the problem". Honey bee is one species of as many as 20,000 bees worldwide, many of which are specialised for pollinating specific flowers. Without those wild bees (and other pollinators!) many plant species will go extinct or suffer. Honey bee is not the solution. If all bees go extinct, you lose your food security, so I'd say bees are priority, we canoot exist comfortably without them. Selfishness will bite us in the butt sooner or later.
@@morgana8037 don't be stupid, without bees there'll be lesser plants, which means lesser food for us. It also means an increased possibility of extinction of various other plants, indirectly impacting all animals, including us. Think a bit holistically before commenting bullcrap.
Uh, ok as a beekeeper here in FL, I’m not so sure that Royal Jelly has any more nutrients than your average multivitamin so its not expensive because of its super food qualities. If anyone knows what it takes to rear queen bees you would realize that the price comes from the effort it takes to raise and trick a colony into making multiple queen cups in one hive. As they usually only make one, MAYBE two when the queen dies or the colony rejects her for sub par work and egg laying. Queen Bee rearing companies have to monitor the bees every single day, sometimes multiple times a day to make sure the bees are making queen cups, and make sure they know where all the queen cups are at (which is why they seem to use a queen cup template) because if a queen is missed and it is raised into a full fledged queen, that queen will then hunt down all other queens and kill them in their cups. How they get them to make as many as we just saw in just ONE colony (looked to be dozens in just one colony) is an intricate and painstaking process. THAT is where the price comes from.
Multivitamins are highly processed, which I believe takes away some of the benefits. Royal bee jelly, as far as I know, isn't processed. At least the jelly my grandma took wasn't. She took royal jelly and natural super b-complex vitamins, and was never on any prescription meds. She lived to 96, she just passed last month, peacefully in her sleep. I'm not saying it was definitely the jelly, but I think it did help. It may not work for everyone, but I think it did help my grandma. Love you Granny G!
It is antimicrobial in nature. It stimulates your immunity. It fights all types of diseases. Royal Jelly also stimulates stem cell production by about 50% increase.
@@devinnorsworthy9154 "It is antimicrobial in nature. It stimulates your immunity." Funny how any actual medical study shows it does nothing. You ate bee snot for no reason.
As a native bilingual in Chinese and English, I am thoroughly impressed at the quality of the English subtitles. Normally English subtitles for Chinese stuff suck, and even the best tend to contain mistranslations, but these are actually great.
This is a rare episode where the worker has complete control of the crop and the price. They really sound so expert and gradually improving the method which then improves the quality of the product and the price. Many other episodes in this series convey more of the struggles of the worker and the industry. These honeybee workers really work hard and work smart at the same time.
I dont know about you guys, but i love how the beekeeper is so enthusiastic when explaining and i was drawn to his explanations. He seems to love his job very much
I guess so, but the actual act is taking baby bees/larva, putting them in an artificial environment to where the developed bees to give it food, then killing the larva after a few days so you can have the food instead. It’s a bit messed up. I’m not a fan of bugs, but I would hardly call this wholesome. I do like that the farmers seem to have an appreciation of bees, but it is exploitative. Not many options for work in China though so it is what it is
@@KBcollision humans have exploited animals since the dawn of time. With the beekeeper talking like that, I would assume that he does his work with more appreciation and care than someone who's just in it for money or lack of opportunity.
@@Sjalabais your words do not conflict with mine. But if we were to talk about whether history justifies continued practice, I would likely disagree with you
@@KBcollision That's a fair point! I love honey, but I've never tasted this particular product. If there is a way for bees and humans to coexist without killing larvae, I'm all for it.
The industry's you mention , must bring out new products , or go under . Royal Jelly , has been known about since pre Dynastic Egypt , as hinve products were used as sweetners , and the royal jelly reserved for the top of the social heap - not that it helps any of them to live longer , or healthier lives .
For anyone who's curious, rapeseed is essentially canola. Wild rapeseed contains some things that make it unhealthy to consume regularly and unfit to feed to livestock. So a bunch of Canadians (which is where the "can" in canola comes from) developed canola which is considered safe. There's also colza, which in some languages refers to rapeseed and canola in general, but is also used for non-food grade rapeseed oil.
It's only called 'canola oil' in North America. It's called rapeseed oil in the rest of the (English speaking) world. The name was changed as part of a marketing scheme to increase sales of the oil by changing the name from something that Americans associated with heinous crime to something much more innocent sounding. The oil itself is the same, and the plant is called the same thing, it's just two different names for the same oil
@@nectarinetangerineorangei believe the Canadians bred the strains of rapeseed that contain way less erucic acid in the seeds then normal rapeseed. Erucic acid in oil is the stuff harmfull to muscles of heart. It is not present in nectar or pollen in elevated amounts though and bees do not put raw pollen and nectar into royal jelly directly anyway.
Lots of stuff in this video that's inaccurate. All bee larvae are fed royal jelly, queens are just fed significantly more of it. The better feed at larval stage is what allows the queen bees ovaries to develop and mature. The workers aren't infertile because they consume honey pollen. Actually workers can lay eggs, but because workers don't mate they don't have the chromosomes to produce anything but male bees. They also keep using footage of aisian giant hornets (murder hornet) when they mention queens. Royal jelly isn't more expensive because of the nutrition, but because it's very labour intensive to produce. I am a beekeeper. I'd like to see the references for the "studies" mentioned.
@2:59 When narrator mentions "drones" they show the image of a worker bee (female) carrying pollen on its pollen baskets. This is inaccurate. Drones (males) do not do any work whatsoever. They are a resource sink for the hive, which is why they are tossed out of the hive to starve to death at the end of the season.
@C.P. totally great observation at 2:59, but roll the camera back 3 seconds back at 2:56 and pause it. Look at the Varroa mite on the worker bees back. #1 reason for most honey bee colony deaths but no mention of it on this video...
You can notice from the video, the price is not as high as you would normally expect from this series. The high price mainly comes from the labor cost, and due to the nature of this product, the bloom season. With a little marketing effort which is just like ginseng with later is more well known in Asia. Just take manuka honey as an example, think about how "special" it is. Comes from special trees, needs heli to transport to a remote local at a specific time, and gov certified mark. All these just bump the price and make the manuka honey special. Maybe over 20 years ago, my grandma give me two bottles of this, but I never try to consume these, but just kept them frozen in the refrigerator I think it is due to the lack of sugar, and does not taste good.
Just a heads up, but you don't need to refrigerate honey. There have been jars of honey found in Ancient Egyptian tombs that were still perfectly safe to eat. It never goes bad.
@@siaskies1704 you are right about honey, as most of the content are sugar. At least for general honey, it should have about 10% water and over 80% sugar. But for royal jelly, over 60% are water and only 10 percent are sugar. So you will indeed need to refrigerate them.
Even the ridiculously expensive Manuka honey isn’t 100% real….. I paid 125 bucks for a tiny bottle and compared it with the 250 dollar and 50 dollar one. (All overpriced honey to be clear) straight up fraudulent
A good point was made about how the larvae being killed is causing scrutiny since bee populations are declining but at least they're still eating the larvae rather than just killing it and throwing it away just to get the royal jelly, at least in this example anyways
It doesn't matter if even a hundred larvae die, they are replaced almost instantly. A queen can lay 3,000 eggs a day in a healthy hive, the larvae won't be noticed really. It's better if they don't die, but it won't matter.
@@lukiValent Yeah, that's a classic misconception, the domesticated ones aren't the issue. I mean when people talk about the declining bird population nobody's talking about future chicken wings either.
the fact that he has a million of bees would show that he has a good amount of respect for them and from looks of it is limiting how much he is taking at a time
First they don't harm the queen bee's larvae and then they eat them in a soup?! I just hope that doesn't have a negative affect on the whole hive. Very interesting docu!!!
yea, that's why it's sOoOoooOo expensive, because labor is involved and people of this generation can't or don't do manual labor, and inflation makes everything that has manual labor behind it so expensive.
People hear “bee” and immediately think of honeybees. Honeybees arent immediately endangered by urbanization and they don’t make up a majority of pollinators in the ecosystem. The real threat is to Solitary Bees, or bees that live by themselves without a Hive. These include Carpenter Bees, Field Bees, Leaf Cutting Bees, and the like. They rely on trees and plant life to survive, and urbanization hurts them the most.
this was very informative I was actually surprised that they didn't portrait these bee keepers negatively just because they are Chinese. You know what I mean, yes you do.
😂 yea I am surprised too but checking out the comment I think they didn't have to cause there are enough negative sentiments to fuel the hate anyways. 😂 Just a regular bee keeper explaining about how to harvest royal jelly, which I think his company's main product is still the regular honey.
The royal jelly are high demand on skincare/supplements products rather than just consume on its own. So you probably won’t realised but you might have using these on your daily life.
Especially the royal jelly also called “蜂皇漿” has been known for ages in eastern asia like china,japan,korea,taiwan etc for it’s recovery purposes. So it is very common to use on mask, creams or essence or supplements for repairing purposes.
@@kristymong90 and tiger pennis powder and doplphin fin extract, chinksectoids are disgusting and non-human, eating everything aroumd them to extimction because of superstitions
woah, i did not know the purpose and appearance of royal jelly in real life, because of a video game called bee swarm simulator. it's honestly astounding to hear that royal jelly can prolong life and keep the body healthy. sad thing it's expensive anyway. [Your Basic bee Transformed into a Vector Bee!!!! (Mythic)] [Your Man Transformed into a Healthy Old Man!!! (Legendary)]
There isn’t any actual proof to say it prolongs your life. It could be very good for you because of the vitamins, but you can get those from other foods too
its not just queen bees who eat it, bee larvae also eat it when they are growing but then they switch to honey and bee bread. Queen bees keep eating it which is what makes them special
Honestly knew about most of this, but holy moly I had NO IDEA people _eat_ queen bee larvae!! Not gonna judge that, but wouldn't it be better for bee populations to save those larvae to start more bee colonies? Since they're taking such a huge hit from pesticides and such, I just felt it was a natural question to ask.
I'll pass on this ... Some things are only for certain people and cultures and some stuff should be left just for the animals themselves 😂😂😂 damn queen bee baby food 😂
Is it just me or when I hear someone say it’s a really crazy expensive price I think it will be a very crazy price like $10,000 a pound. $125 a pound is a good price for the labor and niche that isn’t common. I mean who’s out there making royal jelly on a industrial scale?
@@Shepardofman most of their production didn't even reach us. 😂 I believe this farmer's is still considered small and medium scale over there so let's stop pretend China exports royal jelly 😂😂😂😂
People buying this will buy literally anything. You could probably convince the average queen-jelly enjoyer to encase themselves in beeswax for a day if you promise them longevity or some shit.
10:45 not just excessive pesticides, but fake fertilizer. One common of is to use lead nitrate in place of ammonium nitrate, giving the soil the requisite nitrogen but reducing all future crops with each usage.
Yea pesticide abusion is a global issue. Hence I support GMO to lower pesticide usage .. but so far the one that became classic case study was GMO soybeans that were engineered to withstand higher levels or pesticides/herbicides 😑😑😑
While indeed the bee population is declining it's not the honny bees we should worry about but the thoudands of other wild varieties. There isn't much harm done in this bussiness rather theu're actually sustaining their own colonies of bees.
I like the way that the wax in the honeycomb naturally turns hexagonal by itself, so that the bees don't have to make all the cells in the whole frickin' thing hexagonal. Not that they're lazy lol.
The very first time I ever heard about Royal Jelly was in a short story by Roald Dahl. I was suspicious of it's claims of being a superfood, etc (Still suspicious). But it is good to see beekeepers specialize and take advantage of it.
Superfood? It's not! Royal Jelly if consumed may cause Anaphylaxis (Hyper allergic reaction), itching, hives etc. People also claim Pollen Grains as a Superfood. There're tablets and gel made out of pollen for human consumption. Also it is believed to enhance Horse stamina during horse racing... These are absurd facts strategized for quick selling of something that's not even meant for human consumption... 🤣🤣
@@kevinclifton8276 most of these video can be sum up by rare, expensive, super food and/or alternative medicine. The same as how you would sum up snake oil.
Its honestly surprising how its not even more expensive, considering how niche it is and how finicky and tedious that looks to produce. Seems like something that could be automated eventually.
Quite unlikely that it could be automated. A lot of the movements require microadjustments on the fly to prevent killing the larvae during the grafting process. While during the harvesting process the larvae are so small that the kind of sophisticated machinery required would cost more than they produce.
@@ReizePrimus Why not? bee's are automation, you could totally build a mechinised system to care for the hives, don't use a needle to get them out but suction. Our tech is pretty sensitive now a days that it could detect all it needs and only machines get stung. First though is you need to train the bees to see a giant barn as thier "hive city" to participate.
@@shawnbell3468 They can't, its just not economically feasible. Beekeeping as well as any for of animal husbandry and agriculture can't magically produce more with mechanization. There is an upper limit to the amount of honey and jelly bees can physically produce in a given season. If mechanization could reduce the cost of production or made more honey, the industry would have already done so decades ago. But they haven't because the machines will just cost more to buy and maintain than any amount of honey and jelly they'll ever be able to produce.
Me after eating royal jelly ; Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landside, No escape from reality Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see, I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy, Because I'm easy come, easy go, Little high, little low, Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to Me, to me Mamaaa, Just killed a man, Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger, Now he's dead Mamaaa, life had just begun, But now I've gone and thrown it all away Mama, oooh, Didn't mean to make you cry, If I'm not back again this time tomorrow, Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters Too late, my time has come, Sends shivers down my spine, body's aching all The time Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go, Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth Mama, oooh I don't want to die, I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all. I see a little silhouetto of a man, Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango! Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening me Galileo, Galileo Galileo, Galileo Galileo, Figaro - magnificoo I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me He's just a poor boy from a poor family, Spare him his life from this monstrosity Easy come, easy go, will you let me go Bismillah! No, we will not let you go (Let him go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go (Let him go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go (Let me go) Will not let you go (Let me go)(Never) Never let you go (Let me go) (Never) let you go (Let me go) Ah No, no, no, no, no, no, no Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia, let me go Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, For meee So you think you can stop me and spit in my eye So you think you can love me and leave me to die Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby, Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here Nothing really matters, Anyone can see, Nothing really matters, Nothing really matters to me Any way the wind blows...
Tried royal jelly before. The taste is horrendous, it's a bit spicy and honestly the texture is exactly like a certain white substance our fellow human males can secrete as well. Not worth the price, might as well just buy honey instead of spicy white stuff
So royal jelly is literally just bees unintentionally mimicking average human male cum in both look and taste but with high nutritional value as an added benefit?😂
I understand but at the end of the day it is just another business. Humans have been domesticating and taking advantage of other animals for thousands of years. I see this as being no worse than killing animals for food and many times better than the commercial fishing ships destroying our oceans.
Saying it’s expensive because of the nutrients is off. It’s expensive because it’s rare and takes much more effort to extract
Most of the videos in this channel will qualify your response. You do not have to make by hand where you do not have to!
It's more accurate to say that it's expensive because of the effort, but it's popular because of the nutrients and perceived benefits.
@@vdias No way, most ppl don't even care about nutrients. Remember when pink sauce got popular and it's rotten milk. As long as it's RARE or VIRAL. That's all that matters.
It’s not rare, it’s just difficult to get large amounts
@@dododostenfiftyseven4096 😂😂
For those who aren't aware, it isn't ordinary honey bees that are hurting the most, although they have taken a hit. The real threat is the global collapse of solitary bee populations, which take care of a significantly larger portion of their local ecosystem than honey bees do. Very few people actually know this and hearing so many channels talking about the threats to honey bees is discouraging, because the only reason they're the ones being propped up is because we profit from them. I wish more creators and public representatives took notice of solitary bees and tried to find methods to help.
Yes, and not just solitary bees other pollinators are also on decline for various reasons. Honey bees can also be detrimental to the ecosystem, since humans replace native plants with food crops and farmed honey bees that pollinates those crops ending up outcompeting native pollinators. Few methods i can think of to help native pollinators is by not using insecticides, plant native plants and or let your land grows wild plants (and let the ecological succession happens), abolishing monoculture practices and shift to polyculture (like food forest), etc.
It seems like bees require wild flowers and mushrooms to survive. Loss of forests is creating an environment with less mushrooms and it's causing health issues within many hives but mostly commercial hives
I didn't know this, very important info to leave out!
@@morgana8037 watch the video I pasted below and you'll be shown "what's the problem". Honey bee is one species of as many as 20,000 bees worldwide, many of which are specialised for pollinating specific flowers. Without those wild bees (and other pollinators!) many plant species will go extinct or suffer. Honey bee is not the solution.
If all bees go extinct, you lose your food security, so I'd say bees are priority, we canoot exist comfortably without them. Selfishness will bite us in the butt sooner or later.
@@morgana8037 don't be stupid, without bees there'll be lesser plants, which means lesser food for us. It also means an increased possibility of extinction of various other plants, indirectly impacting all animals, including us. Think a bit holistically before commenting bullcrap.
Uh, ok as a beekeeper here in FL, I’m not so sure that Royal Jelly has any more nutrients than your average multivitamin so its not expensive because of its super food qualities. If anyone knows what it takes to rear queen bees you would realize that the price comes from the effort it takes to raise and trick a colony into making multiple queen cups in one hive. As they usually only make one, MAYBE two when the queen dies or the colony rejects her for sub par work and egg laying. Queen Bee rearing companies have to monitor the bees every single day, sometimes multiple times a day to make sure the bees are making queen cups, and make sure they know where all the queen cups are at (which is why they seem to use a queen cup template) because if a queen is missed and it is raised into a full fledged queen, that queen will then hunt down all other queens and kill them in their cups. How they get them to make as many as we just saw in just ONE colony (looked to be dozens in just one colony) is an intricate and painstaking process. THAT is where the price comes from.
Multivitamins are highly processed, which I believe takes away some of the benefits. Royal bee jelly, as far as I know, isn't processed. At least the jelly my grandma took wasn't. She took royal jelly and natural super b-complex vitamins, and was never on any prescription meds. She lived to 96, she just passed last month, peacefully in her sleep.
I'm not saying it was definitely the jelly, but I think it did help. It may not work for everyone, but I think it did help my grandma. Love you Granny G!
It is antimicrobial in nature. It stimulates your immunity. It fights all types of diseases. Royal Jelly also stimulates stem cell production by about 50% increase.
@@devinnorsworthy9154 source? trust me bro.
@@devinnorsworthy9154 "It is antimicrobial in nature. It stimulates your immunity." Funny how any actual medical study shows it does nothing. You ate bee snot for no reason.
@@smileygladhands I'm sure your granny G is happy in heaven on the computer God got her so she can read what you posted.
As a native bilingual in Chinese and English, I am thoroughly impressed at the quality of the English subtitles. Normally English subtitles for Chinese stuff suck, and even the best tend to contain mistranslations, but these are actually great.
was gonna say that too most subtitles make them look stupid
Lies again? Reflection Journal Most Handsome
Version of Chinese this is?
This is a rare episode where the worker has complete control of the crop and the price. They really sound so expert and gradually improving the method which then improves the quality of the product and the price. Many other episodes in this series convey more of the struggles of the worker and the industry. These honeybee workers really work hard and work smart at the same time.
lol
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@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ Hail Satan!
I prefer buddhism than Christianity
I dont know about you guys, but i love how the beekeeper is so enthusiastic when explaining and i was drawn to his explanations. He seems to love his job very much
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ go to hell
Best way to enjoy life is to enjoy your job or hobby and get paid for it.
making lots of money would do that to you
@@finkalo many people make a lot of money and still hate their job
Well I don't know about you either.
Love that people see it potentially helps queen bees live longer and are just like "if it works for bees then surely it'll work for me!"
yeah people are idiots
it works on gullible people, actually the whole alternative medecine bullshit feeds off people's vulnerability
The harvester they interviewed is pushing 50. Something is working! 😜
@@RSMoreno seriously! Look at that guy
@@RSMoreno your kidding right??? That’s not unusual for Asian people, they tend to go grey later. Also 50 isn’t that old. . .
Bee swarm simulator fans whenever they hear the word “royal jelly”
A beekeeper calling bees a "magical creature" is as wholesome as it gets. What a beautiful little docu!
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I guess so, but the actual act is taking baby bees/larva, putting them in an artificial environment to where the developed bees to give it food, then killing the larva after a few days so you can have the food instead. It’s a bit messed up. I’m not a fan of bugs, but I would hardly call this wholesome. I do like that the farmers seem to have an appreciation of bees, but it is exploitative. Not many options for work in China though so it is what it is
@@KBcollision humans have exploited animals since the dawn of time. With the beekeeper talking like that, I would assume that he does his work with more appreciation and care than someone who's just in it for money or lack of opportunity.
@@Sjalabais your words do not conflict with mine. But if we were to talk about whether history justifies continued practice, I would likely disagree with you
@@KBcollision That's a fair point! I love honey, but I've never tasted this particular product. If there is a way for bees and humans to coexist without killing larvae, I'm all for it.
“Queens live 50 times longer than other bees” shows b-roll of hornets
Lol😅
*Bee-roll
Nice to know that we're eating not only the yellow stuff but the white stuff also coming from bees, we're really just desperate for bee excretions.
😂😂😂
Delicious, delicious fermented bee vomit and even more delicious refined fermented bee vomit
Makes me wonder what we're doing with the brown stuff. I want a taste
Well, other's trash is someone's gold
White stuff excreted by bees. So basically bee sperm.
That's food for thought for sure.
Its incredible how the beauty and food industry find a new anti-aging and aphrodesiac product every 2 years. True pioneers.
This is not new. This is known for literaly thousands of years
China kills endangered animals and claims its medicine to try and get away with it lol
@@niconicoo5661 Just like most other fake alt medicine, but hey for every 10 that are scams 1 is slightly good.
Actually we are going toward the era where bee become endanger
The industry's you mention , must bring out new products , or go under .
Royal Jelly , has been known about since pre Dynastic Egypt , as hinve products were used as sweetners , and the royal jelly reserved for the top of the social heap - not that it helps any of them to live longer , or healthier lives .
we getting mythic bees with this one 🤑🤑🤑🤑
You would need a couple thousand
@the_smartest_jimbo5277 Million.
Couple thousand-million. 😂
For anyone who's curious, rapeseed is essentially canola. Wild rapeseed contains some things that make it unhealthy to consume regularly and unfit to feed to livestock. So a bunch of Canadians (which is where the "can" in canola comes from) developed canola which is considered safe. There's also colza, which in some languages refers to rapeseed and canola in general, but is also used for non-food grade rapeseed oil.
RAPESEED?
@@xenomorphoverlord Yup
It's only called 'canola oil' in North America.
It's called rapeseed oil in the rest of the (English speaking) world.
The name was changed as part of a marketing scheme to increase sales of the oil by changing the name from something that Americans associated with heinous crime to something much more innocent sounding.
The oil itself is the same, and the plant is called the same thing, it's just two different names for the same oil
@@nectarinetangerineorangei believe the Canadians bred the strains of rapeseed that contain way less erucic acid in the seeds then normal rapeseed. Erucic acid in oil is the stuff harmfull to muscles of heart. It is not present in nectar or pollen in elevated amounts though and bees do not put raw pollen and nectar into royal jelly directly anyway.
Canola oil is a healthy oil since it's of the unsaturated variety of fat
Lots of stuff in this video that's inaccurate. All bee larvae are fed royal jelly, queens are just fed significantly more of it. The better feed at larval stage is what allows the queen bees ovaries to develop and mature. The workers aren't infertile because they consume honey pollen. Actually workers can lay eggs, but because workers don't mate they don't have the chromosomes to produce anything but male bees. They also keep using footage of aisian giant hornets (murder hornet) when they mention queens. Royal jelly isn't more expensive because of the nutrition, but because it's very labour intensive to produce. I am a beekeeper. I'd like to see the references for the "studies" mentioned.
Thanks, I would need to write this myself.
PREACH!
Glad someone had mentioned this. Made a similar comment before reading yours.
Exactly, all bee larvae are fed royal jelly. But only the queen eats it all her life.
It is more expensive because of supply and demand.
@2:59 When narrator mentions "drones" they show the image of a worker bee (female) carrying pollen on its pollen baskets. This is inaccurate. Drones (males) do not do any work whatsoever. They are a resource sink for the hive, which is why they are tossed out of the hive to starve to death at the end of the season.
I was looking for this comment. I kept saying to myself, that was definitely a female worker they showed not a drone smh
@C.P. totally great observation at 2:59, but roll the camera back 3 seconds back at 2:56 and pause it. Look at the Varroa mite on the worker bees back. #1 reason for most honey bee colony deaths but no mention of it on this video...
@@Barnesyrasta You actually expect this clickbait channel to do any research?
What @@RawSavage1973
Honestly after watching this the first time in my life im saying that something should be even more expensive than it already is
I just need it for a mythic bee
You can notice from the video, the price is not as high as you would normally expect from this series. The high price mainly comes from the labor cost, and due to the nature of this product, the bloom season. With a little marketing effort which is just like ginseng with later is more well known in Asia.
Just take manuka honey as an example, think about how "special" it is. Comes from special trees, needs heli to transport to a remote local at a specific time, and gov certified mark. All these just bump the price and make the manuka honey special.
Maybe over 20 years ago, my grandma give me two bottles of this, but I never try to consume these, but just kept them frozen in the refrigerator I think it is due to the lack of sugar, and does not taste good.
I have some in refrigerator too
Just a heads up, but you don't need to refrigerate honey. There have been jars of honey found in Ancient Egyptian tombs that were still perfectly safe to eat. It never goes bad.
@@siaskies1704 you are right about honey, as most of the content are sugar. At least for general honey, it should have about 10% water and over 80% sugar.
But for royal jelly, over 60% are water and only 10 percent are sugar. So you will indeed need to refrigerate them.
Even the ridiculously expensive Manuka honey isn’t 100% real….. I paid 125 bucks for a tiny bottle and compared it with the 250 dollar and 50 dollar one. (All overpriced honey to be clear) straight up fraudulent
A good point was made about how the larvae being killed is causing scrutiny since bee populations are declining but at least they're still eating the larvae rather than just killing it and throwing it away just to get the royal jelly, at least in this example anyways
Only wild bee population is declining, the farm bees are perfectly fine.
It doesn't matter if even a hundred larvae die, they are replaced almost instantly. A queen can lay 3,000 eggs a day in a healthy hive, the larvae won't be noticed really. It's better if they don't die, but it won't matter.
@@lukiValent
Yeah, that's a classic misconception, the domesticated ones aren't the issue. I mean when people talk about the declining bird population nobody's talking about future chicken wings either.
@@lukiValent this
@@lukiValent Honeybees are actually one of the reasons for that, not only pesticides. They outcompete the wild bees.
I can’t believe bee swarm sim is coming to life
Queen Bee Larvae: Someday I will be a queen of my own hive
Royal Jelly Farmer: Oh we'll see about that
I admire this man's dedication. His parents are proud. Thanks for sharing. His accent sounds country
2:56 That bee has a Varroa Destructor on it. It's that red spot on it abdomen. They are a common parasite that infects bees.
late-gamers spending trillions to get mythics.
the fact that he has a million of bees would show that he has a good amount of respect for them and from looks of it is limiting how much he is taking at a time
Yet he puts in fetus to be killed everyday AMAZIN
this HOT WHITE STICKY CREAMY GOOEY STEAMY JELLY is so expensive, here's why. what an intro lmaooo
First they don't harm the queen bee's larvae and then they eat them in a soup?!
I just hope that doesn't have a negative affect on the whole hive.
Very interesting docu!!!
I talk to the bees in my two hives everyday. You do start to have feelings for them. I’m very protective of my colonies.
Why so expensive? Most Best series on UA-cam.
This is incredibly impressive work tbh, major respect to the farmers that harvest this, it’s incredibly hard
yea, that's why it's sOoOoooOo expensive, because labor is involved and people of this generation can't or don't do manual labor, and inflation makes everything that has manual labor behind it so expensive.
@@dannygreen5477cry more boomer
@@dannygreen5477Stay humble. Your parents also thought your generation were lazy bums. Were they right?
7:25 looks like something straight out of a ghibli movie
"This sticky, white, creamy, cream..."
😁
People hear “bee” and immediately think of honeybees. Honeybees arent immediately endangered by urbanization and they don’t make up a majority of pollinators in the ecosystem. The real threat is to Solitary Bees, or bees that live by themselves without a Hive. These include Carpenter Bees, Field Bees, Leaf Cutting Bees, and the like. They rely on trees and plant life to survive, and urbanization hurts them the most.
The beginning had me turning down my volume
😂😂😂 woooow, you got me there too.
Even resembles something else. So definitely turn down the volume.
I turned mine up so the neighbors could hear 😩💦
Yeah, it was surprisingly erotic for this channel or any channel.
Without context it sounds so wrong
this was very informative I was actually surprised that they didn't portrait these bee keepers negatively just because they are Chinese. You know what I mean, yes you do.
😂 yea I am surprised too but checking out the comment I think they didn't have to cause there are enough negative sentiments to fuel the hate anyways. 😂 Just a regular bee keeper explaining about how to harvest royal jelly, which I think his company's main product is still the regular honey.
bro ain’t no way doesn’t it cost 6 tickets???
It's definitely worth! My grandmother only eats this honey and she's now 4000 years old.
that aint no grandma bro💀
Is your grandma Joe Biden?
That grandma is a creature
I am sure that stuff is weird…
Wow! 🐝 Never knew the buzz about Royal Jelly! 🍯 Mind-blowing!
As a bee swarm player, I think this is accurate but when you feed it to the bees it changes into another completely different bee.
feed enough royal jellies and it can become mythically expensive
i found it
I've been looking around for a fellow roblox beekeeper
finally
as another bee swarm player, I agree
BEE SWARM SIMULATOR IN REAL LIFE!?!??!?!?!
does it make the bee transform?
Humans will always find various ways to exploit any living organism for their benefits. 👏
Bees truly are magical creatures.
The royal jelly are high demand on skincare/supplements products rather than just consume on its own. So you probably won’t realised but you might have using these on your daily life.
Especially the royal jelly also called “蜂皇漿” has been known for ages in eastern asia like china,japan,korea,taiwan etc for it’s recovery purposes. So it is very common to use on mask, creams or essence or supplements for repairing purposes.
@@kristymong90 and tiger pennis powder and doplphin fin extract, chinksectoids are disgusting and non-human, eating everything aroumd them to extimction because of superstitions
yea, my impression of royal jelly is they're not for food, but for medicine and cosmetics
@@kristymong90 It has no health benefits.
woah, i did not know the purpose and appearance of royal jelly in real life, because of a video game called bee swarm simulator.
it's honestly astounding to hear that royal jelly can prolong life and keep the body healthy. sad thing it's expensive anyway.
[Your Basic bee Transformed into a Vector Bee!!!! (Mythic)]
[Your Man Transformed into a Healthy Old Man!!! (Legendary)]
There isn’t any actual proof to say it prolongs your life. It could be very good for you because of the vitamins, but you can get those from other foods too
its not just queen bees who eat it, bee larvae also eat it when they are growing but then they switch to honey and bee bread. Queen bees keep eating it which is what makes them special
Honestly knew about most of this, but holy moly I had NO IDEA people _eat_ queen bee larvae!! Not gonna judge that, but wouldn't it be better for bee populations to save those larvae to start more bee colonies? Since they're taking such a huge hit from pesticides and such, I just felt it was a natural question to ask.
Amazing video! The way you explain the benefits of bee pollen is so clear and easy to understand. I learned a lot!
Fungicides are typically applied ro rapeseed in early bloom stage so its easy to imagine these chemicals accumulating in bee products.
Not sure if that was all footage from those hives or if some stock footage was also added, but some clips seemed to show a serious varroa problem.
It always comes down to the production method than actual benefit of the product.
I'll pass on this ... Some things are only for certain people and cultures and some stuff should be left just for the animals themselves 😂😂😂 damn queen bee baby food 😂
It keeps the old folks bussin
its expensive because it can transform your bee into any other bee ;)
Is it just me or when I hear someone say it’s a really crazy expensive price I think it will be a very crazy price like $10,000 a pound. $125 a pound is a good price for the labor and niche that isn’t common. I mean who’s out there making royal jelly on a industrial scale?
It's probably fake bro. Knowing the Chinese it's probably not even "royal jelly" and I'm sure the "larva" are maggots.
@@Shepardofman You have to be trolling
@@Shepardofman most of their production didn't even reach us. 😂 I believe this farmer's is still considered small and medium scale over there so let's stop pretend China exports royal jelly 😂😂😂😂
@@Shepardofman I mean, bee larvae do look like maggots tbf. but also nah
I would be really happy to buy for that price $125 per pound from local beekeeper. But afraid in Australia it would be 50 times more.
normal people: it’s just food that queen bees and humans eat!
me who plays bee swarm simulator: how much would it take to get a mythic bee?
FRRRR
dude i just spent 26K royal jellies just to get a bomber bee im so mad
@@NoeuhZazu . me who made my mythic bee gifted by ginger bread:
@@NoeuhZazu this is why i dont gamble
@@AmericanRatWoman i keep gambling and managed to get one with 10k royal jellies, never stop gambling 🔥
It sounds expensive, but he's probably working for $10/hr and the bees are working for free.
*Insert mandatory ‘those are the bees knees’ joke here*
Royal Jelly, aka "food for bee larva" given a fancy name to upsell to wealthy westerners.
Wait... I thought this was originally from western? No? 😮
This would seem like a good plot point for Bee Movie 2
People buying this will buy literally anything. You could probably convince the average queen-jelly enjoyer to encase themselves in beeswax for a day if you promise them longevity or some shit.
Love royal jelly always helps my work outs I can easily feel the difference
This explains why its so hard to find Royal Jelly in Paper Mario
“Guys will I get a mythic?”
I was abt so say that lol
Instead of chasing exotic foods for nourishment, just eat a proper balanced diet everyday.
10:45 not just excessive pesticides, but fake fertilizer. One common of is to use lead nitrate in place of ammonium nitrate, giving the soil the requisite nitrogen but reducing all future crops with each usage.
Yea pesticide abusion is a global issue. Hence I support GMO to lower pesticide usage .. but so far the one that became classic case study was GMO soybeans that were engineered to withstand higher levels or pesticides/herbicides 😑😑😑
LETS GOOOO SOMEONE ACTUALLY SAYINg “ZUO” RIGHT(ish) 🗣️🗣️🗣️
"this sticky, white, milky cream"
stored in a jar with a r and crown served to bees
While indeed the bee population is declining it's not the honny bees we should worry about but the thoudands of other wild varieties. There isn't much harm done in this bussiness rather theu're actually sustaining their own colonies of bees.
I like the way that the wax in the honeycomb naturally turns hexagonal by itself, so that the bees don't have to make all the cells in the whole frickin' thing hexagonal. Not that they're lazy lol.
I was sweating when she said "This Sticky, White, Milky cream"....
ikr
like why did it start like that
@@Cantmancant they prob know what they r doing
already got me hooked in the first 5 seconds
bee's are magical creatures!!
The very first time I ever heard about Royal Jelly was in a short story by Roald Dahl.
I was suspicious of it's claims of being a superfood, etc (Still suspicious).
But it is good to see beekeepers specialize and take advantage of it.
i love that story. it's precisely why i tuned in to watch the video. 👍🏻
Superfood? It's not! Royal Jelly if consumed may cause Anaphylaxis (Hyper allergic reaction), itching, hives etc. People also claim Pollen Grains as a Superfood. There're tablets and gel made out of pollen for human consumption. Also it is believed to enhance Horse stamina during horse racing... These are absurd facts strategized for quick selling of something that's not even meant for human consumption... 🤣🤣
@@kevinclifton8276 most of these video can be sum up by rare, expensive, super food and/or alternative medicine. The same as how you would sum up snake oil.
Oh I forgot to include scam in there.
omgg is it the one where a father feeds his daughter royal jelly and then the daughter turns into a bee?
Bee Swarm Simulator
Its honestly surprising how its not even more expensive, considering how niche it is and how finicky and tedious that looks to produce. Seems like something that could be automated eventually.
Quite unlikely that it could be automated. A lot of the movements require microadjustments on the fly to prevent killing the larvae during the grafting process. While during the harvesting process the larvae are so small that the kind of sophisticated machinery required would cost more than they produce.
Supply and demand. No one wants to eat that shit
That's because it's not as niche as it seems. There is a HUGE market for royal jelly in East Asia.
@@ReizePrimus Why not? bee's are automation, you could totally build a mechinised system to care for the hives, don't use a needle to get them out but suction. Our tech is pretty sensitive now a days that it could detect all it needs and only machines get stung.
First though is you need to train the bees to see a giant barn as thier "hive city" to participate.
@@shawnbell3468 They can't, its just not economically feasible. Beekeeping as well as any for of animal husbandry and agriculture can't magically produce more with mechanization. There is an upper limit to the amount of honey and jelly bees can physically produce in a given season.
If mechanization could reduce the cost of production or made more honey, the industry would have already done so decades ago. But they haven't because the machines will just cost more to buy and maintain than any amount of honey and jelly they'll ever be able to produce.
It's look like unborn Bees 🐝
"queens live 50 times longer than normal bees, and while there is no scientific evidence for it" yall using Wikipedia?
People playing beeswarm 😏
Caught me off guard with the slow "This Sticky, White, Milky, Cream"
Imagine you consume royal jelly and you suddenly turned into queen 💀
Me after eating royal jelly ;
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landside,
No escape from reality
Open your eyes,
Look up to the skies and see,
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low,
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to
Me, to me
Mamaaa,
Just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger,
Now he's dead
Mamaaa, life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, oooh,
Didn't mean to make you cry,
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow,
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine, body's aching all
The time
Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go,
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, oooh
I don't want to die,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all.
I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango!
Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening me
Galileo, Galileo
Galileo, Galileo
Galileo, Figaro - magnificoo
I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family,
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go
(Let him go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go
(Let him go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go
(Let me go) Will not let you go
(Let me go)(Never) Never let you go
(Let me go) (Never) let you go (Let me go) Ah
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia, let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me,
For meee
So you think you can stop me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby,
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here
Nothing really matters, Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters,
Nothing really matters to me
Any way the wind blows...
I was dreaming about royal jelly last night. Weird, how the algorithm knew.
First 6 seconds & im flattered with the way they’re talking about me 🥰
0:01 has been replayed too much! 🤣🤣
"this sticky,white,milky cream"
Bruh
Tried royal jelly before. The taste is horrendous, it's a bit spicy and honestly the texture is exactly like a certain white substance our fellow human males can secrete as well. Not worth the price, might as well just buy honey instead of spicy white stuff
So royal jelly is literally just bees unintentionally mimicking average human male cum in both look and taste but with high nutritional value as an added benefit?😂
You've tasted the white substance human males secrete then?
It definitely looks like that certain white substance... haha. I don't think I could eat this...
ಠಿ_ಠ
0:22 Those are wasps, are they not?
No bro
Look they are bee
A wasp 🐝 is a bit long and not chonky
those are hornets. not wasps, not bees. hornets are worse.
bee swarm simulator real
Yes
I should definitely try this. I too want to be able to live 7 years and lay 3000 eggs in a day
A milky white substance that has a pungent taste? That's not royal jelly I am afraid...
0:58 anyone else notice the bushes around them are weed
Sticky white milky cream 💀
I am impressed with the way royal jelly is harvested.
Is it possible to buy from this farm?
s3nd bitcoin to my crypto wallet and I will ship this jelly to you haha
@@nomoslom scam
@@Purpi129 🤣🤣🤣send eth to my wallet i will proof its not scam
@@Purpi129 no he's legit I just bought 3 kg from him
@@Purpi129 he's legit bruh tui tui
“It’s sticky, milky, white, creamy”
me:💀☠️☠️☠️
I feel sad for the bess
I understand but at the end of the day it is just another business. Humans have been domesticating and taking advantage of other animals for thousands of years. I see this as being no worse than killing animals for food and many times better than the commercial fishing ships destroying our oceans.
@@fqre9200 yeahhh so ever herd about bess pollinating shit?so yeah u he dead with out that just saying
They live and die short lives, and love making honey. It’s kinda what they’d do in nature
That dude doesn’t look 70! Holy crap. He’s got to be a clone or something!
bee swarm reference:
I think ... if every homeowner got into be keeping that would sustain a healthy bee population.
Wait ✋ people eat royal jelly? Isn't that for the queen of the hive ?
10 minutes in
we are all QUEEN BEES
Yasss kween
Yes, and honey is for larvae, and milk is for baby cows, and eggs are for bird embryos. Humans still use them. How is this a new concept for you?
@@simonsaysism you royal jelly is different from honey right ?