Kelulut bee bread is highly sought after for its richness in nutrients and contains good bacteria as probiotics. What is known as bee bread is actually pollens collected by the bees from the plants which they collect their honey from. During foraging, forager bees collect nectar and store it in their honey stomach while their bodies are covered in pollen dust. The bees then store the pollen inside cerumen pots where lactic acid fermentation occurs to form bee bread in their hives.
Because of it is small humble bodies, kelulut bees are able to collect pollen from not commercialised but high-value fruits, trees, and ornamental plants, shrubs, epiphytes, and herbs, and their small bodies enable them to collect pollen from small flowers such as Mimosa pudica.
Bee bread is rich in protein content, essential amino acids–amino acids, and diverse fatty acid profiles, which provide benefits to bee nutrition and also for human health; and high in the phenolic compound, which reflects on its anti-oxidant properties.
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