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INTRODUCTION
Bee bread seems to be an attractive
sourse of natural raw material for the
food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical
industry.
Among the minor components of bee
bread are phenolic compounds.
Flavonoids are the secondary
components of most importance in bee-
bread.
In pollen grains, most of flavonoids exist
as glycosides, among them flavonols
glycosides are present in greatest
amounts.
Quercetin is known as the major
aglycone.