How to properly store royal jelly at home

Firstly, a huge responsibility falls on the one who collects the royal jelly. If the rules of collection technology are violated, it will not be possible to preserve all the healing substances of the product, and, secondly, it will also not be able to be stored for a long time.

Shelf life of royal jelly

Experts have drawn up a table of the shelf life of a valuable bee product in a given temperature regime:

• with a thermometer reading of -1°C – 2 months;
• from -15 °C – -18 °C (freezer conditions) – from 1 year to 19 months.

Royal jelly is transported by placing it in a cooler bag, where the temperature does not exceed 0 °C. The product can remain in such conditions for 1 day.

Proper storage of royal jelly

When saving a valuable bee product, you need to adhere to special storage rules, otherwise the healing therapeutic effect will be lost.

At home

The most common method of storing royal jelly at home is to mix it with natural honey or alcohol. Thus, the product will be able to stand for a long time in suitable conditions, and, moreover, acquire new medicinal qualities.

Royal jelly in its pure form must be packaged in a “small” inorganic (otherwise an alkaline reaction may occur) glass container that closes tightly. It is best when it is possible to place it in a syringe, bottle or test tube, make a hermetically sealed seal and send it to a refrigeration device.

The best place to store royal jelly is in the refrigerator or freezer. If it is not possible to place the container with the healing product in such a device, then it can be left in a place where it is dark and where the sun’s rays cannot reach.

In industrial settings

In industrial apiaries, immediately after collection, royal jelly is preserved using a special technology. After the required process, it is sent for storage in a dark glass jar and sealed tightly with a lid, achieving a tight seal using beeswax.

See the video “Obtaining and storing royal jelly from swarming queen cells”: