What is Bee Pollen?
Pollen is the sole food of the bee larvae (young bees) and because of this nutritious diet, they grow to over 1000 times their original size within a few days. Pollen is collected by the worker bee as she visits flowers and she manipulates the pollen into "pollen baskets" on her back legs. Bees normally work one type of flower at a time, which fulfills the plant-life's need to receive pollen from other plants of the same species. Pollen will also stick to the bee’s body and will be scraped off on each subsequent flower they visit.
How can it benefit the customer?
“Pollen is a completely natural and extremely nutritional food. Many of our customers have found it beneficial in treating tiredness, lowered resistance to illness, loss of appetite, weakness and depression, even premature aging and disturbances of the digestive system.”
Many customers are familiar with bee pollen, due mainly to the well advertised product called Potentiated Bee Pollen. This is a marketing term that a company uses to describe the process used to “break down” the hard outer core of the pollen, thereby making it more potent as the body can absorb all nutrients of bee pollen. Whether this is true or not is anyone’s guess – their process is obviously “secret”. Still, lots of people are hooked and use potentiated bee pollen over normal pollen because of this so-called added-value. After all, pollen is pollen; collected by the honey bee for food for the bee larvae. Clever, because it sets their pollen apart from all the other pollen and they can then charge their higher prices because of this perceived greater value of their “potentiated” bee pollen.
“Did you know that pollen granules have been used by the first ever Olympic athletes for extra energy and vitality, and has been known for its amazing properties in ancient Egypt, China, India and Persia. Back then people collected bee pollen from the hive just as we do today – so you don’t need to pay the inflated prices of potentiated bee pollen to get the benefits of bee pollen.”
Our bee pollen is fresh; collected within the last honey season so our bee pollen contains all of its nutritional values. Bee pollen can help people with allergies to “wind-borne” bee pollen from flowers because it works on building up your body’s natural immunity.”
We recommend our customers use the granules over the capsules, simply because it is better value for money and they really should take at least a tablespoon of bee pollen to be beneficial.
Bee Pollen Smoothie
Blend the following until smooth
- One banana (with additional fruit if available)
- Five almonds (optional)
- One tablespoon of bee pollen
- One tablespoon of manuka honey (or active manuka honey)
- ½ cup of natural unsweetened yoghurt
- ½ cup of natural juice (like orange) or ½ cup of low fat milk
- Five ice cubes
Warning: There is always the small possibility of an allergic reaction. Because bee pollen has almost every single nutrient known to man, some people are allergic, especially people suffering from asthma. We recommend customers start off by using a very small amount of pollen (just a few granules) and build up over time to about a tablespoon.
Allergic reactions to bee pollen can be upset stomach (we recommend people take bee pollen with food), wheezing, or rash.
