Pollen processing method

Abstract

Provided is a pollen-processing method capable of taking out an active ingredient in pollen by crushing pollen shell and then forming ultrafine particles of whole pollen containing the shell so as to become nanometer-scale. The pollen-processing method comprises filtering pollen particles obtained by washing / disintegrating / sterilizing honeybee pollen with a filter, taking out pollen particles having <=50 [mu]m particle diameter, adding and mixing the pollen particles into pure water or an alkali ion water and mixing these components under stirring, adjusting the resultant suspension to provide a fluid-like material, feeding the fluid-like material to an ultrafine particles-forming apparatus M under pressure, forming ultrafine particles of whole pollen together with the shell, crushing the shell, extracting the content component of the pollen, inspecting whether a microorganism exists in the fluid-like material in which ultrafine particles are formed, carrying out freeze-drying to evaporate water content in the fluid-like material, taking out pollen particles in which ultrafine particles are formed as a massive dried pollen component and crushing dried pollen component taken out as masses to provide a prescribed particle diameter.

Description

Technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a pollen processing method by which pollen shells are crushed so that all pollen containing the shells are formed into nano-sized ultrafine particles, and the effective components in the pollen can be taken out. technical background [0002] Pollen is the sex cell of a plant. Bees seek honey to sneak into the flower. Adhesive pollen attaches to its body hair. The bee concentrates the pollen on the hind limbs and consolidates the pollen into a pellet between the limbs and limbs called "squeeze", forming a bee pollen cluster (bee pollen lotus) with a particle size of about 1mm. It deforms on the outer side of the limbs and is surrounded by hairs. In this part called "pollen basket", the above-mentioned bee pollen cluster is stored. The amount of bee pollen clusters stored in the above-mentioned "pollen basket" is said to be about 20-30 mg. The bees store the above-mentioned bee pollen and honey in their nests. In order to rais...

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Problems solved by technology

[0009] However, according to the pollen processing method disclosed in the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, the manufacturing method is not specifically disclosed. In the method disclosed in the Patent Document 1, there is indeed a problem that all pollen containing pollen shells cannot be broken into fine particles. Granular and thus can not take out the problem of pollen components, and, according to the description of paragraph [0014] in the patent document 1, as the method for removing liquid etc. from the fluid state of pollen components, due to adopting the so-called spraying that sprays hot air to evaporate and remove liquid Due to the drying method, there is a problem that the heat-labile vitamins in the pollen components are destroyed

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