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Bee Bread (Perga). Naturally Fermented Bee Pollen. Produced in the UK

Bee Bread (Perga). Naturally Fermented Bee Pollen. Produced in the UK

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ENGLISH BEE BREAD
Naturally Fermented Bee Pollen

100g - £6.99
Free Postage

Harvested in Cambridge Summer 2016

Our English Bee Bread was produced and harvested in the city of Cambridge and comes packaged in biodegradable food grade packets.

Bee Bread (also known as 'perga') is the name given to the pollen collected, stored and eaten by bees.

Bee pollen is remarkably nutritious and contains nearly all of the amino acids, vitamins and trace elements that bees, and human beings, need. But bees have found a way to significantly increase the benefits of this already incredible foodstuff and do not eat their pollen fresh. Instead they turn it into bee bread by storing it in empty honeycomb cells, mixing it with nectar and sealing the cell with honey. The pollen is then left by the bees to ferment in the cell which has two important effects: first it makes the pollen stable and prevents it from going off and secondly it renders the nutrients in the pollen more bioavailable and ready for absorption and use by the body once consumed. Proteins and carbohydrates in the pollen are broken down into amino acids and simple sugars that the body can use more readily and the vitamins contained in the pollen become easier for the body to utilise.

And these effects are as beneficial for people as they are for bees! But although it is an excellent food for health, bee bread should not just be thought of as a health food and can be used as a delicious and interesting

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We like to keep our beekeeping and our honey as natural as possible, which is why we specialise in producing raw, pressed honey and cut comb honey from our beehives which we keep just outside Cambridge.
We think our less intensive approach to beekeeping, where we use no chemicals on our bees and minimise interference in the hives, produces the best tasting honey but we also work with a number of other local beekeepers to bring you fantastic local English honey year round.
We also produce and sell a range of other bee products including beeswax, pollen, propolis and bee bread which can be found in our other items. All of these products are produced either by ourselves or other small, local beekeepers in the UK and none of our products are imported.
All of our products are supplied in either food grade biodegradable packaging made from a plant based 'plastics' or recycled and recycle-able food grade glass to help us and our customers do our bit for the environment.

This item will be posted to you by The Honey Gardyn within 3 days of receiving payment.

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