Pollen: Production, Nutrition and Health: A Review
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The old Egyptians describe pollen as "a life-giving dust." Pollen and its nutritional value is still surrounded by mysteries. It is called the only perfectly complete food. The consumption of plant producing seed, the pollen, is praised in the Bible, Genesis 1:29: And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food.
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