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EVALUATION OF THE BOTANICAL ORIGIN OF COMMERCIAL DRY BEE POLLEN LOAD BATCHES USING POLLEN ANALYSIS: A PROPOSAL FOR TECHNICAL STANDARDIZATION
cargas de pólen
análise de pólen
lotes comerciais de pólen
origem botânica
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High quality of bee pollen for commercial purpose is required. In order to attend the consumer with the best identification
of the botanical and floral origin of the product, 25 bee pollen batches were investigated using two techniques
of pollen grain preparation. The first started to identify pollen loads of different colors in two grams of each well mixed
batch, and the second to identify pollen grains in a pool made of all the pollen loads comprised in two grams. The best
result was obtained by this last technique, when a pollen grain suspension was dropped on a microscope slide and circa
500 pollen grains were counted per sample. This analysis resulted in the recognition of monofloral and bifloral pollen
batches, while the use of the first technique resulted in all samples receiving a heterofloral diagnosis.
Keywords in Portuguese
Abelhascargas de pólen
análise de pólen
lotes comerciais de pólen
origem botânica
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