Bee Pollen Nutrition
January 18th, 2010 | Author: admin
The nutritional content of bee pollen varies slightly with time of year, geographic location and local growing environmental conditions. It also varies with who or what lab did the nutritional analysis.
Bee Pollen Has 18 Vitamins 25 minerals and 60 trace elements. Further it contains 11 enzymes and co-enzymes, 22 amino acids, 14 fatty acids, carbohydrates and protein.
Vitamins in bee pollen
- Vitamin A (carotenoids
- Vitamin B-1 (thiamine)
- Vitamin B-2 (riboflavin)
- Vitamin B-3 (niacin)
- Vitamin B-5 (panothenic acid )
- Vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine)
- Vitamin B-12 (cyamocobalamin)
- Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
- Vitamin D
- Vitamin E
- Vitamin F
- Vitamin H (biotin)
- Vitamin K (choline and inositol)
- Vitamin PP
- Folic acid
- Panthothenic acid
- Rutin
- Nicotinicamide
Minerals: It has been said that minerals can work without vitamins but in order for vitamins to be beneficial minerals have to be present in the right balance. Excessive amounts of minerals is generally as bad as a deficiency.
Fourteen minerals are essential to the body. Bee Pollen has all the essential minerals and 11 more for a total of 25. Bee pollen also has 60 trace elements some of which are considered to be trace minerals.
These are the major minerals found in Bee Pollen.
- Calcium
- Phosphorus
- Iron
- Copper
- Potassium
- Maganese
- Silica
- Sulpher
- Sodium
- Iodine
- Titanium
- Zinc
- Chlorine
- Boron
- Molydbenum
- Selenium
- Fluorine
- Chromium
- Cobalt
- Rubidium
- Strontium
- Lead
- Barium
- Vanadium
- Tin
The large amount of trace elements found in bee pollen are not found in any other food source as far as scientist have yet determined. The importance of these trace elements are also not yet known but many scientist strongly believe that the body needs many more elements than we have yet to research and determine if they are essential to human nutrition.
Bee Pollen contains at least 22 amino acids. Amino acids play a central role both as building blocks for proteins and as intermediates in metabolism. Our bodies can produce only ten amino acids, the rest have to be eaten everyday. If you fail to get just one amino acid it can result in degadation of the bodies proteins.
