Our Hive Ingredients

Ballot-Flurin hive ingredients
4 living ingredients harvested through Apiculture DOUCE®

Propolis, the hive ingredient that protects the colony

A resin that bees make from the sap of tree buds. They coat the entire hive with it to keep it healthy: more than 300 compounds have been identified in it, including over 40 flavonoids.

What makes ours different

Our propolis is organic and French, harvested by a network of partner beekeepers practising Apiculture DOUCE®, in unspoilt areas far from urban and industrial pollution. It is collected without scraping the frames or stressing the bees, then slowly extracted in fruit brandy for at least two months, whereas many extracts on the market are imported and produced in just a few days.


Ballot-Flurin raw propolis
Ballot-Flurin royal jelly

Royal jelly, the hive ingredient reserved for the queen

A milk secreted by young nurse bees. Worker bees receive it only during their first 3 days; the queen, for her whole life. With the same genetic makeup, she lives up to 5 years, compared with 42 days for a worker bee.

What makes ours different

Most royal jelly sold in France comes from Asia and has been frozen. Ours is organic and French, harvested in the Pyrenees from bees that are never fed sugar. It is never frozen or freeze-dried, guaranteed to contain more than 1.8% 10-HDA, and produced without ever killing the queens: this is our No Kill guarantee.


Honey, the hive ingredient of the seasons

The bees’ food reserve, made from flower nectar or tree honeydew. Its composition, flavour and colour depend on the blossoms, the climate and the terroir.

What makes ours different

Our honeys are organic, raw and wild, from the Pyrenees and other unspoilt terroirs. We only harvest the surplus, without chemical repellents, so the colony is never deprived. They are never heated above 35 °C, the temperature of the hive, to preserve their enzymes and vitamins. As a result, quantities are limited and change with every season.


Ballot-Flurin raw honey
Ballot-Flurin fresh pollen pellets

Pollen, the hive ingredient that feeds the colony

The fertilising dust of flowers, which bees carry back as colourful pellets on their legs. It is their source of protein: the only known food to contain all 20 amino acids essential to life.

What makes ours different

Our pollen is collected with a “free-will” trap that lets bees move freely without any risk to their wings or legs. It is Paleo-certified and guaranteed raw: never frozen, never nitrogen-treated, never sorted. Our patented Hydroplus® process keeps it at hive temperature to preserve its nutrients for up to a year.