How to Use royal jelly in a Sentence

royal jelly

noun
  • The worker bees then transfer the vaccine into the royal jelly and feed it to the queen.
    Simrin Singh, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Then, when the worker bees secrete their milky royal jelly, the queen will ingest it and the vaccine.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Worker bees consume the candy, produce royal jelly and feed it to the queen.
    Jennie L. Durant, The Conversation, 20 Jan. 2023
  • They can be trained on how to extract bee venom and produce royal jelly.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 17 May 2018
  • The key to success is not in their genes but rather their diet of royal jelly, fortified with a protein called royalactin.
    Amy Barth, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2011
  • Most of those microbes don’t survive in royal jelly — food fed to growing queens, but also given to all larvae for the first few days.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 21 July 2022
  • The third loquat-laced offering, the Sunset, is a night cream that, thanks to royal jelly, has a slightly heavier texture.
    Samuel Anderson Gisela Williams Isabel Ling Angela Koh Arden Fanning Andrews, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Made with royal jelly and honey—both products from the beehive—this mask promises to bring more vitality and glow back into your hair.
    Popular Science, 4 Nov. 2019
  • There are less painful ways to enjoy the salutary effects of bees — which brings us back to royal jelly, the cornerstone of two anti-aging creams released by Guerlain this month.
    Cristina Mueller, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2012
  • Previously, researchers thought that something in the food fed to young queens—a secretion called royal jelly—was what made the difference.
    Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Elk antler velvet had no lasting effect on T levels, but royal jelly worked wonders — on hamsters.
    Leah Shaffer, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2015
  • Cooks occasionally clamber up the trailer to stoke the smoker’s fires; bees feeding their queen royal jelly.
    Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 7 Jan. 2021
  • An obvious byproduct of keeping a hive is honey — and lots of it — but hobby beekeepers can also use their bees to produce royal jelly and beeswax.
    Shaena Montanari, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2020
  • It's made with honey extract, which nurtures skin, and royal jelly (a honey bee secretion)—both deliver all the good things (amino acids, vitamins, and minerals) to your face.
    Maya McDowell, Seventeen, 21 May 2019
  • And their discovery came from an unlikely source: royal jelly.
    Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2018
  • All told, these findings suggest that nurse bees are indeed, via their royal jelly, passing antigens on to the queen for inoculation into her eggs.
    The Economist, 18 Mar. 2021
  • And royal jelly, the rare and prized milky substance that nurse bees produce to feed to their queen, is purported to have tremendous immune-boosting, tissue-repairing properties.
    Cristina Mueller, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2012
  • The team suggests that supplementing royal jelly with plant miRNAs from pollen is one factor that prevents larvae from becoming a queen.
    Chao Yan, Scientific American, 17 June 2020
  • The masks feature a variety of ingredients from wine, rose, royal jelly and red ginseng to cucumber, charcoal, aloe and bamboo.
    Nikhita Mahtani, CNN Underscored, 9 Sep. 2020
  • When a queen honey bee grows old after two to three years, offspring are designated as future queens and fed a highly nutritious diet of royal jelly – a mixture of nectar and pollen.
    Lila Westreich, The Conversation, 1 May 2020
  • This cream includes only six healing ingredients: royal jelly, bee pollen, beeswax, honey, bee propolis, and olive oil.
    Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 May 2022
  • Larvae that eat royal jelly, a substance secreted by the glands of nurse bees, develop into queens, while those that feed on a combination of pollen and honey called bee bread become workers.
    Aneri Pattani, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The vaccine is incorporated into royal jelly, a sugar feed given to queen bees.
    Remy Tumin, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2023
  • To sum up the decades-long study, honey and royal jelly (another bee product) support the skin’s cellular regeneration.
    Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 28 July 2022
  • Previous research focused on the role of the protein and sugar-rich royal jelly in caste development, but this study found a new mechanism: small molecules in plants called microRNA.
    Aneri Pattani, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Waso cleanser contains royal jelly extract to deliver amino acids, vitamins and minerals to your skin’s surface for added moisture.
    David Syrek, chicagotribune.com, 19 Feb. 2021
  • One of Guerlain’s top-selling products is the Abeille Royale range of skin products created with royal jelly from bees which is believed to have significant healing and anti-aging properties.
    Rebecca Suhrawardi, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • Larvae fed a diet of rich royal jelly develop into queens, whereas larvae that eat a less refined diet of ‘beebread’ and pollen develop into worker bees.
    Chao Yan, Scientific American, 17 June 2020
  • With ingredients like iris rhizome extract, royal jelly extract, and xylose, this cream hydrates and protects the hair from oxidation and high temperatures that come with heat tools.
    Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2022
  • And no wonder, because the products contain the hive’s bounty (honey, propolis, royal jelly, and beeswax), alongside clinical ingredients like hyaluronic acid and peptides.
    Charu Suri, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Mar. 2022

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