Bee Products Consumption and Human Health
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutraceuticals, Functional Foods, and Novel Foods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 September 2025 | Viewed by 3344
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bee products are collected from bee hives, and they include honey, bee pollen, bee bread, bee brood, propolis, beeswax, royal jelly, and derivatives. They have long been consumed by humans as food, functional food, and medications. The beneficial effects, advanced technologies, and optimized formulas of bee products for human health are becoming a new research hotspot in food research. This Special Issue will discuss the bioactivity, safety, and benefits of bee products, covering the following topics:
- Chemical nutritional composition of bee products;
- Use of good prevention and control technologies for bee diseases and pests to produce high-quality bee products;
- Advanced analytical methods to determine the foreign elements or pollutants;
- In vitro and in vivo biological properties of bee products;
- Potential mechanisms of the biological properties of bee products;
- Clinical trials of bee products and their benefits for humanity;
- New formulations to increase bioactivity using nanotechnologies;
- The use of bee products as foods or food ingredients.
All research and review articles on the above-mentioned topics are welcome for possible publication.
Dr. Wenchao Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bee products
- nutritional composition
- analytical methods
- biological property
- human health
- clinical trials
- food ingredient
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