Pine Pollen – How to Pick Your Own Superfood
Food Plants - Perennial, Health & Disease, Medicinal Plants, Nuclear, Soil Erosion & Contamination, Trees, Water Contaminaton & Loss — by Sunny Soleil January 4, 2012
Most of us know about pine needle tea as a rich source of Vitamin C, but now white pine pollen is to being promoted as a highly nutritious superfood powder. But who needs to buy it when you can pick your own?
Arthur Haines shows you how and when to harvest pine pollen with strategies for gathering sufficient to make tinctures or use as food. Haines also goes into detail about the nutritional chemistry of pine pollen which is rich in non-enzymatic anti-oxidants like pro vitamin A, B Complex, C, D and E plus a host of minerals and amino acids. Apparently pine pollen is also a great defence against radioactive Cesium that is appearing in dairy and other foods in the US.
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Wow! I spent a summer in Jasper, Alberta, Canada & saw yellow pine pollen along the roadsides – as thick as drifts of windblown snow. Everything natural is good for something. I keep expecting that prolific Knapweed seed will be found to have beneficial uses …
Comment by Edith Wiethorn — January 5, 2012 @ 7:48 am
is there a variety of the white pine pollen in Australia?
Comment by Gail — January 7, 2012 @ 8:31 am
A novel but amusing thought, especially since pollen is plant sperm (yes that makes hay-fever a literal violation of your body). Not a palatable thought. Then again we do eat eggs and nuts which are all reproductive bodies too.
Comment by Adam T — January 7, 2012 @ 8:55 pm
I’m not sure I find cloning palatable in the food abstract – but all living foods do carry a lot of vital energy in every cell. Elan vital …
Comment by Edith Wiethorn — January 8, 2012 @ 10:33 am
Given the allergy rates to pine pollen, isn’t this ummm risky?
Comment by Anna — January 10, 2012 @ 12:21 pm
Speaking of anti-oxidants is there any relationship with the pine pollen and pycnogenol which is extracted from the Pinus Maritimus tree which I believe is found in Europe?
Comment by millo — January 11, 2012 @ 9:32 am
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