JPH0349542B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to honey bees, bee products such as royal jelly, and methods for collecting the same.

Bees and royal jelly not only have high nutritional value, but also various minerals and vitamins.
It is highly evaluated for its enzymes and other properties, and is recognized as a food that has excellent effects on maintaining health. However, these bees and bee products such as royal jelly are produced by bees while ingesting nectar, pollen, and other limited substances for their own nutrition, so they vary depending on the season and region. As a result, the types of plants that provide nectar are different.
The range of special ingredients contained in these bee products was self-limited, and their content also tended to vary.

As a result of research into supplementing honey bee products with health-effective ingredients to make them better health maintenance supplements, the present inventor has discovered that honey bees can be made to produce honey containing glycyrrhizin. succeeded in. The honey containing glycyrrhizin of the present invention has an increased mineral content compared to ordinary honey, and can be expected to have a detoxifying effect.

Such bee products of the present invention are produced by feeding bees with feed containing glycyrrhizin,
It can then be obtained by collecting honey or milk. Bees normally feed on nectar, but they can also feed on honey, sucrose, etc. instead. Aqueous solutions of sugars such as maltose, glucose, and fructose can also be used. Furthermore, since bees consume pollen as a source of protein and minerals and also suck water as needed, any of these may be selected as the feed to which glycyrrhizin should be added.

The most suitable food for these bees to contain glycyrrhizin is honey or a 40-70% aqueous solution of sucrose. However, there is no problem with aqueous solutions of other sugars as long as they are something that bees can absorb. Furthermore, glycyrrhizin may be dissolved in the water given to the bees together with these saccharide aqueous solutions, and of course, glycyrrhizin may be added to both the saccharide aqueous solution and the water, respectively. Bees do not ingest pale white matter sources such as pollen in large quantities, so they are not very effective as feeds containing glycyrrhizin, but it is also possible to feed them pollen containing glycyrrhizin.

The glycyrrhizin added to the feed may be a water extract of licorice, or may be purified from this extract. Furthermore, glycyrrhizin is not limited to the usual potassium salt, but may also be a salt of calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, manganese, etc., or a salt of germanium. Furthermore, it may be a multi-component salt containing small amounts of these, and is most preferably used in the form of a salt of glycyrrhizic acid, which corresponds to the mineral to be reinforced to bee products.

A more detailed explanation will be given below with reference to Examples.

Example 1 A bee feed containing glycyrrhizin was prepared as follows. At this time, glycyrrhizin labeled with radioactive carbon was used.

Raw honey 5.0Kg Glycyrrhizin 0.1Kg Water 1.0Kg This feed was kept warm and aged for 1 day and night, and then fed to bees at glass temperature. When the stored honey was separated and analyzed after 5 days, the presence of glycyrrhizin was confirmed in the honey.

In addition, we diluted this stored honey to the same concentration as regular honey, and compared the sweetness in a taste sensory test while sequentially diluting it to the same ratio.As the dilution ratio increased, the honey of the present invention was more It was observed that the sweetness was relatively strong, supporting the existence of glycyrrhizin.

In addition, bees that had been fed food containing glycyrrhizin were then fed food that did not contain glycyrrhizin for one day before being captured and their heads and thoraxes were removed to detect radioactivity. Detected.

Example 2 Potassium glycyrrhizinate (glycyrrhizin)
A bee feed was prepared in the same manner as in Example 1 using calcium glycyrrhizinate obtained by replacing part of the potassium with potassium.

Four days after feeding this feed, honey was collected and analyzed, and it was found that the calcium concentration was significantly higher than that of regular honey.

Example 3 10g of glycyrrhizic acid and 1g of water-soluble germanium oxide were dissolved in 1g of hot water and slowly cooled. Mix and dissolve 1.6 kg of sucrose in this aqueous solution,
Food for bees was prepared.

When this food was fed to bees, the bees actively inhaled it.

When the honey was collected and analyzed, glycyrrhizin and germanium were detected.

The bee colony fed this food was extremely strong, stored a large amount of honey, and divided the honey a large number of times.

Example 4 1 kg of licorice was extracted with 3 parts of hot water. The extract was left to cool for one day and night, and then filtered to obtain a licorice extract.
4.5 kg of sucrose was dissolved in this to prepare feed for bees.

The honey produced by bees fed this feed had a slight licorice flavor.

Example 5 In addition to raw honey, glycyrrhizin and a 5% aqueous solution were prepared as feed for bees and fed to the bees. In addition to inhaling raw honey, bees also liked to inhale glycyrrhizin aqueous solutions.

The produced honey was confirmed to contain glycyrrhizin through a taste sensory test.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A bee product containing glycyrrhizin. 2. A method for collecting bee products, which comprises feeding bees with a feed compounded with glycyrrhizin, and then collecting or collecting milk. 3. The feed is selected from the group consisting of those that mainly contain honey or sugar, those that mainly contain pollen or protein, those that mainly contain water, and those that are a mixture of two or more of these. The method according to claim 2. 4. The method according to claim 2, wherein glycyrrhizin is added in the form of a licorice extract.