What nutrition does bee pollen have? How does bee pollen eat? Bee is a kind of magical animal. In many people's eyes, pollen must have magical effect. As a result, bee pollen, which is collected by bees, is endowed with many magical functions. Whether in China or abroad, many people claim that bee pollen contains a variety of nutrients, including 22 kinds of amino acids, 14 kinds of vitamins and more than 30 kinds of trace elements, as well as a large number of active proteases, nucleic acids, flavonoids and other active substances. Therefore, bee pollen is a kind of "omnipotent food", "treasure of human natural food" and so on.
At the 1972 Olympics, Finnish marathoners claimed that bee pollen helped them improve their performance. After that, many people used scientific controlled experiments to test the effect of bee pollen on long-distance runners and swimmers. As a result, the effect of bee pollen is not different from that of placebo. However, in Chinese online advertisements, Finnish athletes are still quoted, and later scientific research has been 'forgotten'.
In the United States, Tom Harkin, a former presidential candidate, firmly believed that bee pollen could cure his allergy, so he spared no effort to promote the establishment of the office of alternative medicine by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1992. He was taking a bee pollen product from an Arizona company. However, the Federal Trade Association of the United States did not give him face. It soon ruled that the company's claims of "curing allergies", "losing weight", "anti-aging" and other functions were false propaganda, and imposed a fine of 200000 US dollars on them.
Bee pollen does contain a variety of components, mainly carbohydrates, a small amount of fat and protein, vitamins, minerals and insect residues and so on. Many ingredients do not mean 'high nutritional value'. The US FDA clearly points out that bee pollen can not be called 'perfect food in nature'. It is not even perfect food for bees - bees can not live on pollen alone. In fact, the protein content of bee pollen is not high. There are many kinds of amino acids, which have no nutritional significance. The advertisement says that it is rich in active protease, which is even more puzzling. Not to mention whether there are so many proteases, even if there are, they will lose their activity because they are decomposed in the stomach. As for other minerals and vitamins, they are good for human health, but it doesn't mean that those from bee pollen are more special. Usually people can get them from ordinary food.
In Chinese advertisements, bee pollen has many frightening functions. In addition to the most appealing "enhancing immunity", "beauty" and "weight loss", it can also "prevent and treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, prostate diseases", "regulate nerves, regulate intestines and stomach", "protect liver and protect liver" and so on. However, consumers need to be clear that these functions are not 'demonstrated by scientific research' as advertised, but are basically 'decided' by advertisers on the basis of interests.