Bee pollen is the hive’s other harvest — the microscopic flower pollen that bees gather leg-basket by leg-basket and enrich with nectar as colony food. The Greeks and Romans called it “ambrosia” and “life-giving dust”; Bee Health calls it what it is: pure bee pollen, 500 mg per capsule, 100 capsules, one ingredient plus the shell.

What bee pollen actually is

Each granule is a blend of pollens from whatever the local flora offered, packed by the bees and fermented lightly with nectar and enzymes — which is why pollen’s composition is famously complex and famously variable, spanning proteins, amino acids, natural sugars, vitamins, minerals and plant compounds in miniature. It is a whole food in the most literal sense: the reproductive nutrition of the plant kingdom, curated by its most professional foragers.

A traditional food, honestly framed

Pollen’s admirers stretch across centuries and civilisations, and modern wellness culture inherited the enthusiasm wholesale. We frame it as tradition rather than treatment: a nutritionally complex natural food taken as a daily supplement, from a brand whose testing and sourcing discipline we trust across its whole hive range.

How to take it — and one warning that matters

One to three capsules daily before meals, within the label’s ceiling. The warning: bee pollen is concentrated pollen. Anyone with pollen allergies, hay fever sensitivity or bee-product allergy should approach with genuine caution or not at all — start minimal if cleared to try it, and stop at any reaction. Pregnant or breastfeeding women should consult a doctor first. The capsule shell is gelatine, so this is not a vegetarian product. Store cool and dry, away from children.

Who buys bee pollen?

Whole-food loyalists who prefer their supplements to have been food first; hive-product collectors completing the propolis-pollen set; and the curious, drawn by two millennia of extravagant reputation. It pairs naturally with our own Sattva Superfoods bee pollen granules for those who’d rather sprinkle than swallow.

Frequently asked questions

Capsules or granules? Capsules for convenience and no taste; granules for yoghurt bowls and honesty about what you’re eating.

Why before meals? The label’s traditional timing — consistency matters more than mechanism.

Does composition vary? Naturally, by season and flora — that’s whole-food reality, not a defect.

The whole-food logic

Isolated nutrients are the supplement industry’s specialty; whole foods are nature’s — and pollen sits firmly in the second camp, its complexity the entire point. You take it the way tradition took it: as a food, daily, unhurried, letting a hundred-capsule bottle pace out three months of routine. That framing also sets honest expectations — whole foods are cumulative, not dramatic, and their variability by season is authenticity rather than inconsistency. If your supplement drawer has drifted toward a chemistry set, pollen is the countervailing purchase: one capsule of the plant kingdom’s own packed lunch, curated by bees with two hundred million years of quality-control experience.

Can I open the capsules? Certainly — the powder sprinkles over yoghurt or porridge exactly like granules, gelatine shell set aside.

What do the granule versions taste like? Floral, faintly sweet-sour, honest — the capsule spares you the opinion; the curious can open one and audit the reputation directly.

Is local pollen better for allergies? That’s folk theory, not medical advice — allergy questions belong with your doctor, full stop.

Best time of year to start? Any — pollen is a year-round food; the bottle’s hundred days simply roll with the calendar you give them.

Store it where? Cool and dry like all hive products — the pantry, not the bathroom’s steam.

Delivery in Malta & Gozo

€6 delivery, free over €40 across Malta and Gozo, or collection from St Paul’s Bay.