One of the interesting productions of the flowers, is the pollen or a large number of micoresporas, which after a process of pollination, gives as a result a very healthy item to be consumed by people. Filed under: dr. stuart mcgill. In first instance the pollen is a secretion that makes the male portion of flowers, i.e. the anthers, after this pollen passes on the pistil of the flower, giving way to the pollination. To achieve to achieve the process of pollination, you need to a large extent the intervention of bees, since in search of nectar and pollen from the flowers, they should put their heads in the Corollas of flowers, so much of your body will be sprayed of gametes, which deposited the next blossom visited. In all this action of bees to carry pollen to the hive, this small insect must moisten with saliva and nectar pollen, thus achieving the conformation of small balls, each one can have a weight between 6 and 8 milligrams. At the end of the process of pollen collection, the bees can achieve collect up to about 20 milligrams of pollen distributed into several balls, which means a good amount of pollen grains. Once the bees have collected pollen you will be directed to the hives, there into pollen which in the world of bees is referred to as bee bread, to coat the honey pollen and that will be the food of the hive; However the bee bread is not what people consume as pollen, but before the bees arrive to their hives, beekeepers take pollen that bees, for which it is necessary to put a caza-polen, which somewhat cover the entrance allowing only bee in the entrance of the hive, but the pollen to be in contact with the grille will fall bee into a container. Pollen grains can present different characteristics depending on the flowers that bees draw them, so pollen consumed by people can vary of shape, color and even flavor, what makes pollen presentations vary according to the species that this is the stage of flowering.

Pollen as a food, offers elements such as carbohydrates, lipids and proteins, which are largely presented as free amino acids and perhaps is the quality most important pollen, since this food delivers 22 essential amino acids, being United food that presents this condition. To view the nutrition offered by pollen, you can compare the level of proteins which thus provides in comparison with meat, 100 grams of pollen is equivalent to the contribution of proteins quo offers half kilograms of meat. In addition to proteins, pollen provides body vitamins such as vitamins A, C, D, and all of Group B, along with various minerals, trace elements, enzymes and antibiotic substances.