The Bee Pollen Company
Organic Bee Pollen, Honey Pollen, Bee Bread, & Royal Jelly Bee Pollen
The Bee Pollen Company
Bee pollen is a mixture of flower pollen, nectar, enzymes, honey, wax and bee secretions. Foraging honey bees collect pollen from plants and transport it to the beehive, where it is stored and used as food for the colony.
Recently, bee pollen has gained traction in the health community because it is loaded with nutrients, amino acids, vitamins, lipids and over 250 active substances.
What is Bee Pollen?
Bee pollen is a valuable apitherapeutic product greatly appreciated by consumers of natural medicine. Bee pollen is known for the potential it has within nutritional applications and the variable dietary benefits it gives. Bee pollen demonstrates a series of actions such as antifungal, antimicrobial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, hepatoprotective, anticancer immunostimulating, and local analgesic. Beneficial properties of bee pollen and the validity for their therapeutic use in various pathological condition have been discussed amongst scientist, athletes, and health enthusiasts.
About
Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their role in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey.
Bees are a monophyletic leneage within the superfamily Apodea.
They are presently considered a clade, called Anthophila.
The Bee Pollen Company
Bee pollen consists of the powdery substance that plants make to reproduce. The bees collect this on their legs and bodies and take it back to their hive as a food source. Often times, bee pollen may contain some flavorful nectar from flowers as well as enzymes from the bees digestion.
In addition to antioxidants, bee pollen contains vitamins and minerals, enzymes, protein, and carbohydrates. Once the bees return with their pollen, it is covered with small amounts of beeswax and honey from other bees. This is called “bee bread,” which is a main protein source for the bee colony. Bee pollen is a natural product that varies with geographical location and flower type. For this reason, bee pollen varies in shape, color, and nutritional content due to the pollen grains being collected from various types of plants and locations.
Bee pollen is sold as natural granules which can be measured by the teaspoon. Often times bee pollen is mixed into foods like granola, yogurt, smoothes, and peanut butter – we like to take a teaspoon with a spoon full of fresh honey from our farm!