What's the difference between propolis and honey? In fact, propolis is propolis, honey is honey, and beeswax is beeswax, which is extracted from different plants.
Where do propolis, honey and beeswax come from
1. Propolis is a kind of resin material collected by bees from the axillary bud, flower bud and wound of the new branch of the gum plant. It is injected into the gland secretion by bees and processed repeatedly. The raw material of bee propolis production is the secretion of gum plant resin. Collecting resin is a hard, arduous and highly skilled work for honeybees. Generally, it is performed by young honeybees, which are called "glue collecting bees". Their task is to collect, process, transform and use propolis. A colony of 50000-60000 bees can only produce 100-150g propolis a year, which is known as "purple gold". It can be seen that propolis is precious.
2. Honey: honey is a kind of natural sweet substance which is fully brewed from the nectar collected by bees from the flowers of flowering plants. It's fragrant, full-bodied, pure and sweet. Bees take nectar or secretions with water content of about 75% from the flowers of plants and store them in their second stomach. Under the effect of various transformations in the body, after about 15 days of repeated brewing, various vitamins, minerals and amino acids are rich to a certain value. At the same time, the polysaccharides in nectar are transformed into monosaccharide glucose and fructose that can be directly absorbed by the human body. The water content is less than 23% Store in the nest and seal with beeswax. Honey is a supersaturated solution of sugar, which will crystallize at low temperature. Glucose will crystallize and fructose will not crystallize.
3. Beeswax is a kind of fatty substance secreted by the wax glands of the right age workers (the wax glands of the workers are mature at the age of 13 days and begin to secrete beeswax; after 18 days, the wax glands degenerate and stop to secrete beeswax). Beeswax has a wide range of uses in all walks of life, such as cosmetics manufacturing industry can be used to produce cosmetics, food industry can be used as food coatings, packaging and coats, etc., and paraffin can be divided into three kinds: fully refined paraffin, semi refined paraffin and crude paraffin, of which crude paraffin is mostly used to make matches, fiberboard, awning canvas, etc., fully refined paraffin and semi refined paraffin can be used as food and medicine Packaging materials.
Difference of Honey, Propolis and Beeswax
Propolis is a kind of natural anti-inflammatory and bactericidal substance, which contains a large number of flavonoids and terpenes, which can eliminate many diseases in human body. The most important nutritional ingredient in honey is natural fructose. Its greatest effect is to provide nutrition and energy for human body. That is to say, the efficacy of propolis is mainly to cure diseases, while the efficacy of honey is mainly to nourish, which is the biggest difference between them.
