Hi everyone, I have this ridiculous problem. Recently I've learnt that bee pollen is the best source of all essential substances that our body needs. Anamizingly, it contains pretty much all vitamins, minerals and amino acids, also fatty acids and some other useful stuff like enzymes and growth factors. So I decided to include it in my routine, but the damn thing tastes horrible! I've tried to mix it with other foods, but it's no use because the taste is so strong. Does anyone have any ideas for how to consume things which are absolutely disgusting? Cause really, the prospect of having to swallow 4 teaspoons of that per day makes my skin crawl.

Is pollen that good? I noticed that Wonderup contains it and I wondered why. Perhaps you could describe the taste more - it might help to know what kind of taste you're trying to mask.

Don't know if you've already tried or if it will even help, but try holding your nose and swallow quickly, followed by a big glass of water to chase it down with or just something to drink to hopefully to get the taste out. But, you've probably already been there and done that right? :)

Also, I've seen bee pollen in capsules/pill form, that might be better than having to swig down that awful taste everyday. :)

I just bought pollen yesterday to try, what with studying what was in wonderup and all !!!! and I figure its in a breast pill because of amino acids ????? what do you girls think. Anyway to take awful tasting stuff I drizzle a little honey with it and mix annd swallow, I was taking fenugreek and fennel like this for a long time. I ve just bought a "cap em quick machine" so Im making my own caps so much fun !!!!!!! so Im starting pollen as of today love jellyDeee...

I have no tried honey, will do that. On the box it said you could mix it with youghurt. Well that was one wasted youghurt. :P
The thing that drew my attention in poillen are the growth factors, apparently plant growth hormones, one most important is called auxin, which stimulates growth of the side branches of plants, and if this hormone is similar to human growth hormone or is metabolised into it or a similar acting againt, it might help NBE. I hope it does the same to our breast gladular tissue as it does to the plants - make it proliferate and grow additional 'branches'. ;)
In any case, pollen seems like a better supplement than any multivitamin, because it contains everything, including amino acids. Oh well, time to go swalow some of that disgusting stuff.

Thank you ever so much Jelly for suggesting honey! I just swallowed two spoons of pollen and didn't feel its taste at all. Honey is indeed great for swallowing disgusting things because it's liquid enough to swallow without having to chew and solid enough to capture the thing which tastes disgusting and prevent it from soluting.

Hi guys, i didn't know the pollen was so popular-have any of you seen good results with it, or do you think it helps whislt taking with other herbs/pills?

At this rate i will be filled to the brim with pills/herbs/potions-I seem to be buying alot of different things at pres may as well skip meals lol

haha it's funny you mention Bee Pollen. I've actually been drinking it -- practically -- every day since I always miss the breakfast hours at my dining hall and I need a nice boost in the mornings to keep me awake in class! However, I don't just drink Bee Pollen liquid. There's this place called Surf City Squeeze on my campus (it's like a Jamba Juice or a Robeck's) and they have a smoothie called "The Bee Stinger", which contains: banana liquid extract, blueberries, [actual] bananas, ice, protein powder, and bee pollen powder. It's really good! It's funny because once I find something I like I typically stick with it, so "The Bee Stinger" has become my "special" every day I go into SCS. LOL

Anyway, besides taking the Bee Pollen liquid with honey you can also try incorporating it into a smoothie. I'm not sure if it'll have the same taste, though, since you're using a liquid and the smoothies at SCS use powders, but you can give it a try!

Can I use bee pollen capsules instead? That won't taste bad at all. The kind of bee pollen you are talking about, is it in liquid form? Is it more potent than capsules? Where do you buy the liquid form? I am in Singapore. Thanks.