Nature's Most Perfect Food
The History of Bee Pollen
The Collection Process of Pollen
Where Does Bee Pollen Come From
What Is Bee Pollen Used For
World's Greatest Health Authorities Speak of Pollen
Information About Our Product
Raw Bee Pollen Weight Breakdown
Typical Analysis of Bee Pollen
Unknown Components of Bee Pollen
Records of the use of pollen date back 15,000 years. At Cuevas de la Arana, near Bicorp, Valencia, Spain, prehistoric cave paintings depicting men foraging for honey and pollen were discovered in 1919. One painting depicts a man climbing a rope to a hole in a cliff where he takes a honeycomb and puts it into some type of a container. Beekeeping scenes from at least four ancient Egyptian tombs have been photographed and may be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The bees and hives are easily recognizable with identical hives that are still in use today in undeveloped parts of Africa.
Bee Pollen consists of myriads of microsphores formed in the anthers of flowering plants, and in the staminate cones of conifers and cycads. The individual pollen spores are very small. A single stobile may produce six million pollen grains. Many plants are pollinated by wind, water currants are responsible for pollinating other plants, and still others may be pollinated by rain. Plants with showy or scented flowers with nectar are largely insect-pollinated. Insect pollinators include flies, beetles, bugs, wasps, bees, butterflies, and moths. Hummingbirds, sunbirds and other honey eating pollinators also participate in the pollination process.
Until about 1960, pollen could not be obtained directly from the hive in an uncombined form because the honeybees deposited it immediately into a honeycomb. A method of collecting pollen was invented which forces the bees to crawl through a narrow mesh screen before they can enter the storage area of the hive. Pollen pellets are brushed off their loaded legs as they enter into the hive. The pollen pellets drop through another screen with smaller holes into a collection drawer. If the pollen is gathered from a variety of plants, the pollen will be multicolored. The color of the pollen will be uniform if the hive is placed in an area with a single flower such as a large field of clover. The color of the pollen has nothing to do with the virtues of pollen as a food, it simply represents the variety of pollen that came from the types of flowers reached by the bees. Once the pollen pellets have fallen into the collection drawer, they are retrieved, dried, cleaned and stored. The collection, cleaning and stabilization of our pollen is performed in a manner so as not to compromise the nutrient content or value.
Bee Pollen is a complete food for the body, (See typical analysis chart) and is in a form easily assimilated by the body. It is known to regulate and stimulate metabolism by supplying the missing factors that may be supplied from other foods.
Many scientific studies have been and are currently being done on the benefits of pollen. Various clinics have been experimenting with pollen in relation to many ailments and such questions as growth promotion, and the use of pollen as a sole source of nutrients for prolonged periods.
1) Tryptophan
2) Lysine
3) Metheonine
4) Threonine
5) Prenylalanine
6) Valine
7) Isoleucine
8) Leusine
9) Cystine
10) Arginine
11) Hystidine
12) Glutamic Acid
13) Tyrosine
14) Serine
15) Proline
16) Hydroxyproline
17) Alanine
18) Aspartic Acid
1) Amylase
2) Diastase
3) Saccharase
4) Pectase
5) Phosphatase
6) Catalase
7) Diaphorase
8) Cozymase
9) Cytochrome Systems
10) Lactic Dehydrogenase
11) Succinic Dehydrogenase
12) (24) Oxidoreductases
13) (21) Transferase
14) (33) Hydrolases
15) (11) Lyases
16) (5) Isomerases
17) Pepsin
18) Trypsin
1) Calcium
2) Phosphorus
3) Iron
4) Copper
5) Potassium
6) Magnesium
7) Manganese
8) Sodium
9) Silicon
10) Sulphur
11) Titanium
12) Chlorine
13) Zinc
14) Iodine
15) Molybdenum
16) Boron
1) Provitamin A (Carotenoids)
2) Vitamin D
3) Vitamin B-1 (Thiamin)
4) Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)
5) Vitamin C (Asorbic Acid)
6) Choline
7) Inositol
8) Vitamin B-12 (Cyanacobalamin)
9) Vitamin K
10) Vitamin E
11) Biotin
12) Folic Acid
13) Vitamin B-6 (Pyroxodine)
14) Pantothenic Acid
15) Rutin
16) Niacin
1) Nucleic Acids
2) Flavonoids
3) Phenolic Acids
4) Tarpenes
5) Nucleosides
6) Auxins
7) Fructose
8) Glucose
9) Brassins
10) Gibberellins
11) Kinins
12) Vernine
13) Guanine
14) Xanthin
15) Hypoxalthine
16) Nuclein
17) Amines
18) Lecithin
19) Xanthophylis
20) Crocetin
21) Zeaxanthin
22) Lycopene
23) Hexodecanal
24) Alpha-Amino-Butyric-Acid
25) Monoglycerides
26) Diglycerides
27) Triglycerides
28) Peutosaus
Some of the greatest values of bee pollen may stem from elements which are for the moment still unknown to science, and from the synergestic action of all elements working together. Alin Caillas, the French nutritionist, says: "Bee pollen's main virtues could well reside in the fraction of undetermined elements and we must wait until scientists lift the veil which covers the hidden part of the composition already so rich."
IMPORTANT!
There are established Recommended Daily Allowances for many vitamins and minerals and bee pollen contains varying amounts of these ingredients. There is no RDA established for the majority of ingredients listed in bee pollen on this page.
Sources
1) "Pollen - Biology - Biochemistry - Management" by Professors Robert G. Stanley, formerly of University of Florida, and H.F. Linskens, Botanisch Laboratorium, Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen.
2) "The Chemical Composition and Nutritional Value of Pollens Collected by Bees" by Earl Vivino and L.S. Palmer of University of Minnesota (Division of Agricultural Biochemistry).
3) "Pollen" by R. Binding, a Fellow of the British Royal Horticulture Society.
4) "Bees in the Service of Humanity" by Dr. Naum Joirisch, Department of Physiology, Far East Institute, Soviet Academy of Science at Vladivostok.
Paavo Airola, N. D., Ph.D.
"Pollen is the richest and most complete food in nature. It increases the body's resistance to stress and disease and also speeds up the healing process in most conditions of ill-health: pollen also posesses age-retarding and rejuvinating properties. Truly, Bee Pollen is a miracle food, a wonder medicine and a true Fountain of Youth."
Carlton Fredericks, Ph.D.
"Honeybee Pollen is the only super-perfect food on this eart. This statement has been proven so many times in laboratories around the world by chemical analysis that it is not subject to debate or challenge."
Bernard Jensen, D.C.
"Much has been said about pollen helping glands in the body. All experiments on animals show it prolongs life and helps keep the glands in good order."
Betty Lee Morales, Ph.D.
"Bee Pollen is the only known food which contains every essential nutrient needed by mankind for perfect health."
Carlson Wade
"There's only one way to achieve total nutrition with total health and that is by consuming Bee Pollen."
454,000 mg. per pound
28,000 mg. per ounce
14,000 mg. per tablespoon
4,700 mg. per teaspoon
3,575 mg. per 3/4 teaspoon
2,383 mg. per 1/2 teaspoon
1,192 mg. per 1/4 teaspoon
596 mg. per 1/8 teaspoon
Lee, W.H. R.Ph.D. "Bee Pollen - Super Energy - Super Nutrition",
Keats Publishing, Connecticut, 1983.
Balch, "Nutritional Healing", Avery Publishing, New York, 1990.
Our pollen is available in granular and tablet forms. As the strong taste of the raw pollen (or granular) pollen is a problem for some, and easy and palatable method of using pollen is to take tablets, which may be swallowed with little taste. For best assimilation, the tablets should be taken before eating, with a glass of juice or water. Pollen granules can easily be taken with food: sprinkles on salads, fruit cocktails or desserts, stirred into yogurt, honey or jam, or mixed with fruit or vegetable juice in the blender. You should begin a bee pollen program slowly and gradually increase your intake. Bee pollen is a very potent food. Many people will work up to and maintain with one teaspoon per day. One pound contains approximately 100 teaspoons of pollen. Please use caution if you have or are susceptible to allergies.
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