Texas Honey Comb
Our Texas Bee Patties are made the way God intended. With just pure ingredients your bees with thrive with. Bee patties on the market are made with filers and vegetable oil that your bees can’t process. Our patties are made with the fines ingredients of Pure Sugar Cane, Soy Protein, Amino Acids, B vitamins, Minerals, Brewers Yeast and Pure Bee Pollen.
Quality Ingredients your bees will love. You will receive 1 8-oz (250) Patty
Key Features:
- Nutrient Boost: Delivers essential vitamins, minerals, and amino acids that are crucial for hive health and productivity.
- Hive Health: Supports strong and robust colonies by enhancing bee immune function and overall vitality.
- 22.95% Protein & Pollen will yield a much faster build-up as well as a much faster consumption rate. Complete formulated sugar patty is recommended in the spring or summers in Texas so the hive is strong and ready for the honey flow.
- Our Sugar patties offer bees a balanced diet when they are unable to forage due to weather, when they have a shortage of stored pollen. Supply when they have competition from stronger hives, or when they are stressed by pesticides, mites and diseases.
Benefits:
- Enhanced Bee Health: Strengthens bees and supports their natural defenses against diseases.
- Improved Hive Productivity: Promotes better brood development and honey production.
- Simple Usage: Add directly to feed or apply as directed for optimal results.
Commercial bee pollen patties are everything but food for your bees. They do more harm than good. The process of making the Bee Pollen patties is heating sugars to a fructose state above 145 degrees, thus turning the sugars into to the degree of making HMF. To turn sugars into fructose, you need to break down a disaccharide like sucrose (table sugar) into its component parts which are glucose and fructose. Through this process is called hydrolysis using an enzyme like sugar and inverting it into high fructose. This is also how high corn syrup is made. Bees can not digest heated sugar the way a human does. Pollen patties on the market are made with vegetable oil to keep the patty soft. While great for looks, not so much for bee health. Most patties are made with corn syrup that is not digestible for your bees.
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Starting sugar:
Most commonly, table sugar (sucrose) is used as the starting material to produce fructose.
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Process:
When sucrose is mixed with water and an enzyme (like sucrase), it breaks down into its constituent sugars, glucose and fructose, in equal amounts.
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Enzyme involved:
The enzyme responsible for this breakdown is called sucrase.
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Commercial application:This process is used to produce high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), where corn starch is first converted into glucose, then partially converted to fructose using an isomerase enzyme.
Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) is a toxic organic acid that can be harmful to honey bees:
HMF is toxic to both adult bees and developing larvae. The level of toxicity depends on the concentration of HMF, the duration of exposure, and the developmental stage of the bee.
HMF is a heat-formed contaminant that occurs when simple sugars, especially fructose, degrade. It can be found in food and feed containing carbohydrates, such as high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and beet sugar.
HMF can cause dysentery-like symptoms and ulcers in the gastrointestinal tract of bees, leading to their death.
Beekeepers use HMF to promote brood production and when field-gathered nectar sources are scarce. However, there are no rapid field tests to alert beekeepers of dangerous levels of HMF in HFCS or honey.
Some scientist studies suggest that:
- Concentrations of HMF less than 10–15 mg/kg in honey pose little risk to honey bees.
- A concentration of 150 mg HMF/kg of commercially acid-hydrolyzed inverted sugar syrup can cause 50% bee mortality within 16 days.
- The HMF concentration in inverted syrup for feeding bees should not exceed 20 mg/kg.
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