Q&A - Questions and answers

Q&A - Questions and answers

What is the different between house nest and cave nest

Being the same bird species called Collocalia, house nest and cave nest have the same molecule structure, thus, it gives the same bioactive benefit. The only different is cave nest has some mineral from the cave stone. From the scientific research of mineral content, the only different of cave nest is that it contains much more magnesium than the house nest.

Cave nest is more expensive than house nest, why is that?

Cave nest is more expensive than house nest due to the concession fee of the cave nest and the collecting process. In the old time, there are no ‘houses’ available to birds so people can only find Swallow Birds Nest in the cave. Since hundreds of years, Collocalia starts to look for food in the inland and it has found a safer and calmer manmade ‘house’ to live in. They later developed the habits of living in the ‘house’. House nest is lower in height and is in an easier access position while cave nest is more difficult to collect due to the height and cave natural structure.

Are we stealing their nest?

The nest that was collected from each period was abandoned. There is no such thing as stealing the nest from the bird or killing the baby bird for its nest for the bird house. Each house nest would be checked before collecting due to the easier access. No one wants to kill the bird. In contrary, it is important to make sure the bird feel safe so that it will come back to live and lay the egg in the same place.

What is in the Swallow Birds Nest?

Collocalia eats insects and small animal from the forest on the mountain nearby or from tropical trees near the sea. With the modern day advanced technology and research conducted in the laboratory, it is now known that Swallow Birds Nest nutrition consists of carbohydrate, protein, minerals as many other food. But the difference is that 80% of Swallow Birds Nest contains Glycoprotein which is the bonded molecule of carbohydrate and protein linked together. It is this Glycoprotein, a natural water soluble molecule that has the natural bioactive benefit more than the normal protein alone.