Pollen composition and standardisation of analytical methods
By M. Campos, S. Bogdanov, L. B. de Almeida-Muradian, T. Szczęsna, Yanina Mancebo, Christian Frigerio, F. Ferreira. 2008
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Summary Honey bee pollen is considered to be a food, and national pollen standards exist in different countries such as Brazil, Bulgaria, Poland and Switzerland. It is the aim of the present work to review pollen composition and the analytical methods used for the evaluation of high quality bee pollen. Based on the experience of different countries and on the results of published research, we propose quality criteria for bee pollen, hoping that in the future they will be used as world wide bee pollen standards.
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science
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- Dried bee pollen: B complex vitamins, physicochemical and botanical composition (2013, unknown): “Stanley and Linskens (1974), Szczesna and Rybak-Chmielewska (1998) and Campos et al. (2008) reported values of 0.”
- Assessment of pollen rewards by foraging bees (2017, background): “…of the chemical composition of pollen are hampered by methodological limitations arising from the use of fresh plant samples or bee-collected pollen that has been altered through the addition of nectar by foraging corbiculate bees (Roulston & Cane 2000; Campos et al. 2008; Nicolson 2011).”
- Weeds for bees? A review (2015, unknown): “Pollen is used for brood development (Brodschneider and Crailsheim 2010), since it contains proteins, fats, mineral salts, amino acids and vitamins (Campos et al. 2008; Manning 2001; Haydak 1970).”