Education

Here are some interesting facts about PIP, bees and bee products.

1. Did you know that PIP is older than the modern Croatian state, and that it is continuing a 70-year long family beekeeping operation?
2. Did you know that PIP has its bees in glass hives in the Technical Museum and the Zagreb Zoo?
3. Did you know that in the autumn, bees force the drone bees out of the hives?
4. Did you know that honey syrup and alcohol solution of propolis cannot be homogenized?
5. Did you know that the PIP syrups are under patent protection, that they are preservative-free and alcohol-free, and suitable for children over the age of 1 year?
6. Did you know that PIP wrote the hymn of the Croatian beekeeper, raised a sculpture of gratitude to bees, and has published four expert books on beekeeping?
7. Did you know that the queen bee feeds on royal jelly her entire life?
8. Did you know that propolis has antibacterial action and enhances the effects of antibiotics up to 100 times?
9. Did you know that flavonoids are the pharmacologically active compounds in propolis and that they should be declared, and not the dry matter content?
10. Did you know that chokeberry (aronia) is a powerful antioxidant, and that PIP uses the chokeberries it grows on its own plantation in Pisarovina?
11. Did you know that bees need to visit several million flowers to make one kilogram of honey, and that the patron saint of bees and beekeepers is St. Ambrose?
12. Did you know that PIP was the first in Europe to begin production of royal jelly solution, and the first in Croatia to produce alcohol-free propolis solution?
13. Did you know that PIP was the first in Europe to begin packing honey in packets for use in cafes?
14. Did you know that PIP has products for sensitive, damaged and dry skin?