Sure, honey tastes good, but from a chemistry standpoint, honey isn't all that different from high-fructose corn syrup.
Particularly popular ones are bee pollen and royal jelly, a secreted substance that worker bees feed to larvae.
Despite this risk, royal jelly traditionally has been used to aid wound healing.
So a team of scientists from Italy and Slovakia determined why royal jelly has this property.
First, they separated royal jelly into various fractions in order to isolate the compounds that make it up.
As shown, compared to the control wounds (which only received a cellulose-based gel), both royal jelly (RJ) and defensin-1 (rDef-1) treatments facilitated healing.
Despite this very interesting finding, slathering royal jelly on your cuts and scrapes is definitely not the takeaway lesson. »