Vol. 6, Issue 4 (2018)
Impact of floral variations on physico-chemical properties of bee pollen
Author(s): Sapna Tiwari, Pramod Mall and Renu Pandey
Abstract: Honeybee collected pollen has a great value not only for bee nutrition, but also for humans, as it provides a rich source of easily digestible proteins. Due to the presence of high concentrations of proteins, amino acids and vitamins bee pollen has an indispensable value for human diets. But bee pollen samples indicate large variations in their chemical composition with change in their floral origins and great nutritional value. Thus in the present study three samples of stored bee pollen of mustard, golden rod and bajra flora were subjected for the physico-chemical analysis. Different physico-chemical parameters viz: moisture, total solids, pH, nitrogen, crude protein, vitamin-c and amino acids were studied. The highest variations were found among proteins and vitamin-c, ranged from 15.01 – 22.97% for proteins and 11.67-14.57% for vitamin-c. While slight variations were reported for moisture, total solids, pH, nitrogen and amino acid content, ranged from 7.05-10.27%, 89.73-92.95%, 4.24-5.14, 2.41-3.68% and 1.42-2.09%, respectively. Bee pollen of mustard flora contained the higher amount of moisture, protein, nitrogen and amino acids. While vitamin-c and total solid content was found higher in bee pollen sample of golden rod flora and bajra flora, respectively.
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Sapna Tiwari, Pramod Mall, Renu Pandey. Impact of floral variations on physico-chemical properties of bee pollen. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(4):1833-1835.
