Subscribe to our newsletter. Royal Jelly is a gelatinous substance secreted by worker bees and fed to select bee larvae to produce a queen bee. A similar substance, worker jelly, is fed to the other larvae.
Royal jelly is a mixture of various proteins and water.
Studies on lab animals have shown some benefits from royal jelly when injected, attributed to pantothenic acid. There's no supporting data for the health benefit claims made when royal jelly is ingested. The danger to asthmatics and others with allergies is well documented in the medical literature. Royal Jelly has been implicated in at least one asthma death. There's also been one case of haemorrhagic colitis associated with royal jelly ingestion.