What is the difference between pollen and honey, are pollen and honey the same thing, and why?

Updated on healthy 2024-08-07
4 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-15

    Honey, pollen, royal jelly and propolis are all products of bees, but the raw materials**, characteristics, uses and efficacy of this substance are not the same.

    Honey is a sweet food made by bees from the nectar they collect, and its main components are glucose, fructose and other nutrients. Honey is the main food for bees and their main source of energy.

    Pollen is a pollen mass that bees collect from flowers and are processed by bees. The main components of pollen are protein, amino acids, vitamins, enzymes, minerals, etc., which are the protein food of bees and an indispensable raw material for bees to secrete royal jelly.

    Royal jelly is a milky substance secreted by the worker bees through the nutrient glands of their heads after eating honey and pollen, and is the food that the worker bees offer to the queen bee.

    Propolis is a gelatinous substance made by bees collecting resin from plant buds and other parts and adding their own secretions. The master of propolis.

    Honey, pollen, royal jelly, and propolis are four different products with different ingredients and effects, each with its own characteristics, and can be eaten separately or at the same time. When eaten at the same time, the ingredients and effects between them will complement each other, and they can play a more nutritious and healthy role.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-14

    Bee pollen is a pollen grain collected by bees from the stamens of flowering plants (nectar plants and pollen plants) and mixed with special glandular secretions, nectar and saliva to form an irregular oblate shape.

    Honey is a sweet slurry substance made by bees from the flowers of flowering plants, brought back to the hive, and brewed under the repeated action of invertase enzymes in the body.

    There are many similarities between bee pollen and honey, but there are some differences, and in general pollen is slightly better than honey.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-13

    No. Bee pollen is a very nutrient-rich, complete health care product, honey is a bee collection of plant nectar or secretions, after full brewing and stored in the nest spleen sweet substance.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-12

    Bee pollen refers to the pollen mass brought back by bees when collecting honey, which is stored and fermented in the hive. Bee pollen is the male germ cell in the stamens of flowering plants, which not only carries the genetic information of life, but also contains all the nutrients necessary for the birth of new life, and is the foundation of plant succession and the source of heat energy.

    When bees collect honey, they collect pollen to form pollen balls, which are stored after entering the hive. Its main therapeutic ingredients are: protein, amino acids, vitamins, bee pollenin, trace elements, active enzymes, flavonoids, lipids, nucleic acids, brassin, phytic acid, etc.

    The amino acid content and proportion are the closest to the amino acid pattern recommended by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which is extremely rare in natural foods.

    Bee pollen is a concentrate of nutrients and medicinal properties, including proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins and other active substances. Bee pollen is not only an excellent natural nutritious food, but also an ideal tonic and has certain medical effects.

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