Going to lick the greenhouse clean!...

[MiHale]

We live ‘in’ or more accurately on the fringe of a Forest populated by pine trees. Every year pine pollen covers everything, golden dust. It’s in the air to breathe, landing on the basil and lettuce leaves, spring is pollen.
Most springs it’s dryer than this most of the pollen blows away, lost.
This spring is damper and warmer. We roll up the windows on the greenhouse during the day as we were closing up this evening I found this…

Huge amounts of pine pollen.





Ate it all.



Information on pine pollen.. for even more info…Google “health benefits of pine pollen”.


https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924224423002145#:~:text=Pine%20pollen%20is%20a%20rich,and%20anticancer%2C%20hepatoprotective%2C%20gastrointestinal%20modulatory

Abstract

Background

Pine pollen, well-known as a “natural micro-nutrient bank,” is the male spore of Pinus massoniana Lamb., Pinus tabuliformis Carr., and other plants of the same genus. Pine pollen has a long history of use in China as a traditional medicinal and edible material due to its rich nutrients, bioactive compounds, and health potential.

Scope and approach

This review summarizes the published findings related to chemical compositions, health effects, processing and storage, and food applications of pine pollen. The possible mechanisms behind the beneficial properties of pine pollen, and the future direction for research and development are also underlined.

Key findings and conclusions

Pine pollen is a rich source of macronutrients and bioactive compounds that have demonstrated various health benefits, including antioxidant, immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, glucose and lipid metabolism regulatory, antimicrobial and antiviral, antitumor and anticancer, hepatoprotective, gastrointestinal modulatory, anti-aging, and other biological properties. The nutritional quality and beneficial effects of pine pollen are influenced by post-harvest processing methods. Pine pollen has diverse applications in the food industry, such as in beverages, pastries, dairy products, delivery systems, and as sorbents for separation and purification of polar analytes. Further in vivo experiments and clinical trials are needed to deepen our understanding of its health benefits. Exploring combinations of multiple processing methods could optimize the utilization of pine pollen as a nutritional food resource.

[2naSalit]

1. It's a thing...

In my area too. You can see a whole mountainside in waves of yellow dust in the breeze. I have some cool pictures of pollen in puddles, kind of psychedelic. I'll have to find them, later.

[Quakerfriend]

2. Very nice! In the Spring I take a teaspoon of

pine pollen with a dab of honey each morning to help with allergies (tho mine are very mild). I buy it on Amazon.

I know a woman who claims it cured her of all her allergies.