1, pollen is nutritious, but nothing special, different pollen composition is more or less the same.

2, pollen is a common food, can be used in health care products, but health care efficacy is doubtful.

3, pollen nutrients can be absorbed without breaking the wall.

4, pollen daily consumption of small, negligible nutrition.

Spring is the season of growth of all things, countless flowers competing to open, but many people are allergic to pollen, suffering.

There are also some people who believe that pollen is the essence of plants because it is the sperm of plants.

In the advertising campaign, eating pollen can not only health care, but also beauty and beauty.

While the Chinese medical textbook records the pollen into medicine, but in fact, mainly external application coated to cure skin abscesses, not eaten in the cure.

Of course, apart from the risk of pollen allergy, most people can eat pollen without worrying about it, as it has performed well in various toxicology studies.

In fact, you already unknowingly eat a lot of pollen in your daily diet, such as yellow cauliflower, pumpkin flowers, vegetable shoots, and various flower teas.

So, do you know what's actually in pollen?

Components are pretty much the same

Research has shown that the types of ingredients contained in different pollens are basically the same, but there are differences in the proportions of the different ingredients, for example, bee pollen has more sugar than other pollens.

The main components of pollen are proteins, amino acids, fats, sugars, polysaccharides, crude fibers, minerals, and vitamins, in addition to a variety of phytochemicals such as flavonoids and sterols.

But these are very common ingredients in ordinary fruits and vegetables, and you really can't find a reason for pollen to override fruits and vegetables.

Of course, the nutritional value of the pollen itself is not bad, such as the protein content of about 30%, the amino acid composition is also more in line with human needs.

Only the daily consumption of pollen health products is only about 3-6 grams, and three meals compared to the diet can only be a trivial supplement.

Only common food

Pollen was once approved by the former Ministry of Health as a "new resource food", but "new resource" only indicates that the Chinese people did not have the custom of eating pollen before. It is still an ordinary food.

In 2004, the former Ministry of Health is clear that canola pollen, corn pollen, pine pollen, sunflower pollen, zoysia pollen, buckwheat pollen, sesame pollen and sorghum pollen for ordinary food ingredients, restore its original face.

On the one hand, this shows the safety of pollen consumption, but on the other hand is also a reminder of its health care function may not be as magical as you think, yo.

Health function do not superstition

Currently in the former General Administration of Food and Drugs website can query the "pollen" named health care products approval number 108 to pine pollen, bee pollen, but a considerable portion of the actual has been a "zombie number". "Zombie number".

The vast majority of the products are approved to enhance immunity, a result obtained through animal experiments, but are often tested using doses 10 or even 30 times the recommended serving size.

The ingredients they claim to be effective are generally total flavonoids, crude polysaccharides and dietary fiber, which I don't deny have real health benefits, but they are simply too common in the daily diet.

Plus the fact that the amount of pollen you eat every day is very small, so it's not the main source of these "power ingredients".

Because supplements are not required to provide clinical evidence of their health benefits, there is a huge question mark over whether they work in humans. (There are a few exceptions, such as regulating intestinal flora.)

Additionally, many salespeople or sales meetings for pollen supplements make claims of other benefits, which in most cases are false.

Remember, the more efficacy is claimed, the more deceptive it is.

Because regular health food is generally approved for a maximum of only two effects (and interrelated), more than three effects or even "cure-all" health products are almost certainly illegal.

(The official websites of many health care companies are honest and never dare to talk nonsense, but they tacitly approve and even encourage dealers to blow all kinds of smoke. Once someone questioned, they immediately dumped the pot on the dealers, and even said that they were deliberately hacking them.

Breaking wall pollen

In the business propaganda, pollen is a hard shell, the human body is difficult to digest and absorb the "essence" of the ingredients.

So the need for ultrasound and other technical means to break the shell of the pollen, made of wall-broken pollen, and then can be sold more expensive.

The wholesale price of ordinary pine pollen is about 50 yuan a catty, much lower than the wall-breaking pine pollen made into capsules or tablets.

"There's always a reason why it's expensive", well, it's very realistic to be fooled and counted on your behalf.

The truth is that the pollen's shell isn't as strong as you might think, and the human digestive system isn't as incompetent as you might think.

For example, corn, rape, lotus, buckwheat, sesame, camellia pollen in vitro simulation of digestion and human consumption conditions, the absorption rate of more than 90%, and no significant difference.

In animal experiments, there is also no significant difference between wall-broken pollen and unbroken pollen.

So if you still believe in the "efficacy" of pollen, do not deliberately pursue the wall, after all, the process of breaking the wall will also lose some of the so-called "active ingredients" it.