Comparative Bibliometric Insights into Honey, Bee Bread, and Bee Pollen Research in Food Science and Technology: Trends, Thematic Evolution, and Future Perspectives

A comparative bibliometric analysis of honey, bee bread, and bee pollen in the field of food science and technology has never been published.Honey dominates publications in terms of both publication period and number of documents, followed by bee pollen and bee bread.Research on honey, bee bread, and bee pollen has shifted from authentication to antioxidants and functional foods.Global collaboration networks are led by China, Turkey, and Italy. Honey, bee bread, and bee pollen have strong prospects as functional foods.Future research requires biomolecular studies and clinical applications related to their function as functional foods