You have heard about how great bee pollen supplements are for you. You’ve heard about how bee pollen contains all of the essential nutrients required to sustain human life. But all because natural bee pollen may start off as having up to 97 essential nutrients packed within its fine dust doesn’t mean that the bee pollen you buy in the store necessarily offers the same amount of benefits for your health.
It is important to recognize that not all bee pollen supplements are created equal. Many bee pollen supplements undergo several treatments: processing, coloring, dyeing, added preservatives, heating, freezing, grinding crushing… each one of these treatments only further kills off the nutrients that are naturally contained within a natural bee pollen. Because of this, it is essential that you do seek out a natural bee pollen that has been left in its most natural state: a bee pollen granule.
Sure, you will find bee pollen tablets and pills and powders and liquids and several other commercial products that claim to have bee pollen in them. But read the back of the package: Do you see any dyes? Coloring? What sort of manufacturing or processing has that so-called natural bee pollen been through? If the bee pollen is not in a granule form and is on a store shelf, you know there must be preservatives in there. Seek out bagged and bottled natural bee pollen granules that offer a diversity of color.
There are two sources that I find offer easily accessible and good quality natural bee pollen: a bee keeper, or an online bee pollen or natural health store. Bee keepers are wonderful as you can actually inspect the natural bee pollen right then and there and see the area the bee pollen is coming from (if you are trying to buy bee pollen that may be organic, this is a great route to take). The drawback to a bee keeper is that the different types of flowers that a bee has collected pollen from may be lessened. This means that the pollen you are buying may not have as many nutrients in it.
TIP: To find a local bee keeper, check out bee keepers in your area through an Internet search or visit your Chamber of Commerce.
Buying natural bee pollen online allows you to easily compare prices, quantities and review the company to check out the quality of the natural bee pollen they are selling. The drawback of course is that you cannot actually physically inspect what you are buying before purchasing. Again, be sure to perform an Internet search on the company and seek out any reviews or customer complaints. Many online natural bee pollen companies also have a customer service line you can call with any queries or concerns you may have before buying their product.
It is important to recognize that buying natural bee pollen means that it has a much shorter storage life, so buy natural bee pollen in small yet frequent quantities to ensure that you always have a fresh supply at hand.
