In professional sports, it is essential to take into account several aspects to obtain the best performance, including equipment, preparation, nutrition, supplementation and technical precision.

With this in mind, Breyer developed the ULTIMATE BEE line, which brings the best that bees and nature can offer in nutrition and sports supplementation, contributing to the athlete’s best performance.

Ultimate Bee Honey and Melato are practical and provide the best, both from a nutritional aspect and the dynamics of use during sports.

Ultimate Bee Honey is produced from a selection of wild flowering honeys, 100% organic and free of chemical components.

Melato Ultimate Bee has extrafloral origin, presenting greater viscosity and dark color (dark amber), in addition to a full-bodied flavor. It has a different composition, with more minerals and vitamin C than most honeys, as well as phenolic compounds, which give it antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, excellent for muscle recovery.

In general terms, what differs between honey and melate is the fact that honey is of floral origin, and melate is of extrafloral origin.

Ultimate Bee products are organic certified.

Many people practice sports with the aim of taking care of their health, and this care begins with healthy eating and supplements. The Ultimate Bee Line Products have organic certification.

They are produced from a selection of honey and melate collected by bees from native areas, free of chemical components.

Our care begins with the environment, the organic program is developed by the company Breyer in different regions of Brazil, prioritizing sustainability and ensuring natural and healthy products. The program establishes guidelines based on practices that adopt specific techniques in accordance with Brazilian, North American and European regulations.

The consumption of carbohydrates during training or competition, especially when energy is needed, is crucial to the athlete’s performance and results.

Using the Ultimate Bee Honey and Melato sachet during sporting activity is practical. It is a package that can be opened with one hand, without major risk of leaks, allowing full use of the product, avoiding the athlete’s loss of concentration and focus during a competition. Providing healthy energy at the moment the athlete needs it, without wasting time and performance.

Consuming honey and melate before physical activity provides the slow and constant release of glucose into the blood, helping to prevent our body from using stored muscle glycogen as fuel, conserving muscle glycogen reserves for longer, controlling fatigue. During training, honey and melate replenish blood glucose levels, increasing muscle power and improving performance. And after training, they contribute to the reestablishment of blood glucose levels and assist in muscle recovery.

Ingesting carbohydrates like honey or molasses after training is an important step towards recovery. During exercise, blood glucose levels can drop because muscles use available glucose for energy. Carbohydrate intake reestablishes levels. Additionally, during recovery, muscles absorb extra glucose to restore their internal muscle glycogen reserves. During recovery, your muscles also compensate by increasing their reserves for the next workout. If blood glucose is not available to the muscles at this time, our body may not recover as efficiently.

Produced from the agglutination of floral pollen, carried out by worker bees through the addition of nectar and their salivary substances, it is considered one of the richest natural food supplements, being referred to as the “only complete food”. Pollen consumption improves resistance during training and helps eliminate states of fatigue, tiredness and muscle weakening.

Ingesting bee pollen can be widely used by sports practitioners in general, due to its rich chemical composition. Bee pollen is the result of agglutination carried out by worker bees, through the addition of nectar and their salivary substances, adding enzymes, amino acids and vitamins to the pollen collected from flowers, in order to form the pollen mass3,4. Bees collect the grains from the anthers of various flowers and at the end of the collection, they gather this material into acorns of grains of varying color, forming a mixture known as pollen “mix”5. They then take them to the hive, where they are stored in the cells next to the eggs and larvae to be fed, becoming known as “bee bread”.

Bee pollen has a complex chemical composition, considered an excellent nutritional source beneficial to health. It is a functional food and its nutritional composition consists of proteins, lipids, sugars, fiber, mineral salts, phenolic compounds and vitamins (Provitamin A (𝛽-carotene), vitamin E (tocopherol), niacin, thiamine, biotin and folic acid). 7,8,9,10,11 It presents a high concentration of reducing sugars, essential amino acids and unsaturated/saturated fatty acids, there is also the presence of Zn, Cu, Fe and high K/Na ratio, which makes bee pollen very important for the human diet12,10.

It is considered one of the richest and purest natural food supplements13, and can be used as a food complement in human nutrition, as it is an important source of proteins7, being referred to as the “only complete food”, as it contains all the essential amino acids that humans need. They require: histidine, lysine, tryptophan, phenylalanine, methionine, threonine, leucine, isoleucine and valine7,14,13, that is, amino acids that the body cannot produce and depend on food intake. It also contains flavonoid substances in significant quantities15, resulting in a product with a high nutritional content16. Bee pollen has a chemical composition that constitutes it as a food with rich nutritional value that brings health benefits, containing more than 200 substances, originating from different plant species8.

Some studies demonstrate that the use of amino acids enables their use in energy pathways and improves muscle function (AMENT et al., 2001; MENEGUELO et al., 2003). A greater need for protein intake has been noted for those individuals who practice physical exercise, as it contributes to the supply of energy in endurance exercises, and is also necessary for muscle protein synthesis post-exercise (Carvalho 2003).

According to the Brazilian Sports Medicine Guideline (HERNANDEZ and NAHAS, 2009), the protein needs of athletes have received special attention from researchers in recent decades as they play an essential part in the repair of micro muscular injuries resulting from sports practice. These needs increase with the type of exercise practiced, its intensity, duration and frequency and there is no definition regarding differences regarding sex. Strength exercises require greater protein consumption when compared to the demands required by resistance work.

For those who aim to increase muscle mass, an intake of 1.6 to 1.7g/kg/day is suggested. For sports in which resistance is predominant, proteins play an auxiliary role in providing energy for the activity, with an estimated daily consumption requirement of 1.2 to 1.6g/kg of weight. Still according to the parameters established by the guideline, the maximum consumption of this nutrient should be 1.8g of protein/kg/day, both for athletes and non-athletes (HERNANDEZ and NAHAS, 2009).

In the chemical composition of bee pollen, the presence of phenolic compounds with antioxidant activity is highlighted (Carpes et al., 2009). During physical exercise, due to the high wear and tear on the body, free radicals are released, which lead to the aging of tissues and cells. To block or reduce these activities, it is interesting for those who practice sports to consume foods that have antioxidant potential.

Recent studies point to the high antioxidant capacity of bee pollen (De Melo et al., 2018). Phenolic compounds have been considered bioactive substances, with a positive correlation between the phenolic content, especially flavonoids, and the antioxidant capacity of bee pollen (Leblanc et al., 2009; Mohdaly et al., 2015). Research carried out with bee pollen extracts in the southern region of Brazil found a high content of phenolic compounds and flavonoids with recognized biological activities, mainly antioxidants (Carpes 2008; Carpes et al., 2008) and indicate a significant amount of B complex vitamins, suggesting that This could be a good natural food source of these compounds and an alternative to currently available supplements (Rodrigues B, et al., 2019). The main antioxidant vitamins found in pollen are: B carotene as well as pro vitamin A, vitamin C and E, which can act directly in the fight against free radicals, which can limit performance during exercise, because they are capable of causing damage to nucleic acid cells and promote muscle pain and fatigue.

Studies speculate that free radicals cause metabolic fatigue due to the accumulation of substances in muscle fibers, which interferes with the release of calcium or the ability of calcium to stimulate muscle contractions. Gomez Cabrera et al. (2005) speculated that antioxidants can minimize oxidative damage by catalyzing chemical reactions to detoxify free radicals in cells and directly eliminate reactive oxygen species from cell-disfiguring lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids.

The antioxidant capacity of this food is higher than that observed for fruits recognized as a dietary source of antioxidants; consequently, its consumption may be beneficial to human health. The antioxidant capacity of the products was higher than that reported for some red fruits, which are recognized as a dietary source of antioxidants (De Melo et al., 2018 a and b). Studies carried out by Ping and colleagues (2018) indicate that bee bread supplementation appeared to improve running performance and increased total antioxidant status in recreational athletes.