Bee bread
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Bee bread or bee pollen<ref name=wong>Wong, Cathy (February 2 2005). Bee Pollen. about.com. Retrieved on 2006-09-23.</ref> is the main source of food for most honey bees and their larvae. It is fed to all larvae except those that are destined to become queens; the queen larvae are fed royal jelly instead. Bee bread consists of honey and pollens which are gathered by the worker bees. A recent study of bee bread showed it contain 188 kinds of fungi and 29 kinds of bacteria.<ref name=black>Black, Jacquelyn G. (2004). Microbiology. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 0471420840.</ref> Bee bread is sometimes referred to as ambrosia.<ref>Oxford Canadian Dictionary</ref>
Bee bread is used in naturopathic medicine traditions and as a nutritional supplement, though no studies confirm its effects and exposure can trigger allergic or anaphylactic reactions in sensitive people.<ref name=wong/>
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