| Abstract: | Bee pollens are pollens harvested by bees. During evolution, flowers have provided pollinating insects with increasingly customised pollens, targeting their specific nutritional needs: pollens are thus an extremely rich source of micronutrients, have an aminoacid balance that is extremely rare in the plant world, and are heavily loaded in protective substances: polyphenols, carotenoids, selenium, phytosterols, hydrosoluble and liposoluble vitamins. Beehives are veritable mini-laboratories, where, over their 80 million years of evolution, an infallible method of storing pollen in the hive has developed into an expertise worthy of the agri-food industry, using lactic acid bacteria that have proved to be successful probiotics for man. |
