Your Cart is Empty
($59 and up*)
Pine Pollen Super Power
100% Canadian Wild Harvet
Pine pollen powder has a special place in traditional Chinese soup, stuffing, steamed cake, fermentation, wine, and preserve recipes. It is a superfood of the wild forest, without a kind. The Song Dynasty poet Su Dongpo says: "A pound of pine flowers is indispensable, two pounds of white honey together, eat well, bathe well, red and white until old." The Canadian Pine Pollen Company wild harvests and fair trades this pine forest superfood with all involved in the process of its harvest and sale, including you, our valued clients. The pine pollen powder you consume has been sustainably wild-harvested and handpicked from the most pristine forests of Western Canada. Our internal sustainable harvest protocols are a leading standard in wild forest management. Give Canadian pine pollen a wild run now, and you will always be wanting more.
Pine Pollen powder has a mild, bitter, and dry subtle pine taste and smell. It lends itself to many recipes and drinks. 1/2 teaspoon to 3 table spoons mixed with elixirs, smoothies, cocktails, tea or coffee gives a nice creamy feel that boosts its nutritional value. Mix it in parfaits, gelato, pastry or energy bars, and boost your super snack with plant steroids.
Pine pollen is the yellow dust inside the red (ponderosa) and Yellow (lodgepole) male comes. Live whole pine pollen cells packs over two hundred bioactive plant compounds; antioxidants, flavonoids, essential amino acids, minerals, vitamins, and best of all phytoandrogens: hormones called brassinosteroids that influence the function of natural androgens receptors. These plant hormones are found across the food chain. But they are most concentrated in pollen from pine trees.
Each Spring, we set out on a journey to bring you our best. Our wild harvest of pine pollen powder takes place across BC, with each site producing a unique batch of pine pollen. Each batch of pine pollen powder is identified by region and species. It air dried, natural processed at low temperatures and cold-stored at our facility in the Lower Mainland. Our commitment to land stewardship helps in setting industry standards for sustainable wild harvest and partnership with land owners and seasonal harvesters of pine pollen. Our natural processes of drying and extraction of ensure that the pine pollen we serve you contains the full spectrum of the nutrients in this wonderful superfood.
Phytoandrogens: Plant hormones that mimmic human male hormones involved in sense of well being, energy and graceful aging.
Other Plant Hormones: Pine pollen has five additional plant hormones; auxins, cytokinins, gibberellins, ethylene and Abscisic acid (ABA), all with high biological activity; Including antiviral activity, anti-cancer activity, anabolic activity, and pro-survival activity, and the ability to stimulate the activity of innate immune cells, stem cells.
Glutathione: Often referred to as the #1 anti-oxidant essential immune and detoxification.
SOD (Superoxide Dismutase): A powerful anti-inflammatory catalyst involved in skin and tissue repair.
MSM (Methylsulfonylmethane): A sulfuric compound that improves digestion and energy expenditure.
.Hand Harvested and Naturally Processed - we use nature and simple mechanics to extract the pollen from the male cones. Our pollen is raw and untreated - unlike other products in the market, we don't cook, steam, microwave sterilize, or alter the Canadian pine pollen in any way. We store every batch of pine pollen in cold storage before shipping. Our products are Safe Quality Food Institute Certified for safety and meet highest standards of GMP and ISO certification
We started this venture to wild harvest enough pine pollen to last us each, for one year.
Soon our friends and clients wanted to have their hands on a year supply of this cream of the pine forest too, and the Canadian Pine Pollen Co. was born. We pride ourselves on providing this select superfood in its most natural way possible: wild, raw, and living, with all its nutrients intact. We have created a network of land and forest professionals committed to responsible and sustainable use of forest resources in Canada, and pride ourselves in facilitating economic development through novel agroforestry practices. Each year we set out to bring you, our wild fans, this golden cream-of-the-crop of the Canadian pine forests in a limited supply.
Our team is passionate about pine pollen, from the harvest practices to the packaging, we focus on ensuring quality, sustainability and equitable trade.
Are you interested in spending time on the wild land, earn a decent living? We are looking for fun, energetic, and wilderness enthusiasts to join our 2018 harvest. Get in touch with us, and learn more.
