POWDER OF QUEEN-BEE LARVA, POWDER OF WORKER BEE PUPA, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THEM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide powder of queen-bee larvae, powder of worker bee pupas, and food containing them. SOLUTION: The method for producing powder of queen-bee larvae comprises such processes that larvae after a lapse of about 72 h from hatching are transferred to an artificial queen-bee larvae bowls of artificial queen-bee larvae honeycomb frames used exclusively for gathering royal jelly, the artificial queen- bee larvae honeycomb frames are put between hive and hive of a beehive, and the larvae obtained after a lapse of 72 h are heat-treated, dried and crushed. The other objective method for producing powder of worker bee pupas comprises heat-treating pupas after a lapse of 13-17 d from hatching followed by drying and crushing the resultant pupas; wherein especially, the heat- treatment is done with steam.