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World Journal of Ecology, 2025, Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages: 1-4

Honey Bees And Their Brood: A Potentially Valuable Resource Of Food, Worthy Of Greater Appreciation And Scientific Attention.

Correspondence to Author: Samrat Ghosh, Victor Behno Meyer-Row, Chuleon Sung.

Agriculture Science and Technology Research Institute, Andong National University, Andong, Republic of Korea.

Abstract:

Although bee brood is consumed in many parts of the world, especially in tropical regions, the practice has gotten relatively little attention. We have examined every piece of information that is currently available regarding the nutritional makeup and functional characteristics of the various developmental phases of honey bee workers from various species and subspecies. Given the competent nutritional makeup of honey bee brood, pupae, and prepupae in particular, we propose that they may one day be used as both animal feed and human food.Additionally, drone brood is a perfect candidate to be used as a food or ingredient. However, further research is still needed to examine the functional characteristics of various honey bee species.

Keywords:Entomophagy, Protein, Amino acid, Minerals, Functional properties, Apiary, Bee products

Citation:

Dr.Samrat Ghosh, Honey Bees And Their Brood: A Potentially Valuable Resource Of Food, Worthy Of Greater Appreciation And Scientific Attention. World Journal of Ecology 2025.