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Anyone have any idea what this would taste like compared to bee pollen? Or the most similar thing available in the Western world? Several minutes of Googling yi

• askvictor 8y ago
  What do you mean by bee pollen?
  • mahesh_rm 8y ago
    It is used as a superfood sort of thing and it has a quite distintive taste (not a fan of it): https://georgiamead.com/blog/bee-pollen-as-a-yeast-nutrient/ https://georgiamead.com/blog/bee-pollen-as-a-yeast-nutrient/
    • askvictor 8y ago
      But it's just flower pollen, collected by bees, no?
• h0l0cube 8y ago
  In another article an Israeli scholar speculates: > that the yellow coconut sweets they make for Purim in Israel must have been a substitute for the hard-to-find original yellow khirret http://nawalcooking.blogspot.com/2013/03/khirret-cattailtypha-pollen-gift-of.html http://nawalcooking.blogspot.com/2013/03/khirret-cattailtyph... The article also says that the pollen is high in protein and it's mixed with sugar or date syrup. So one could guess it tastes a bit like a halva. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halva Some of which are quite dense, chalky, and sweet, with an overtone of the particular protein - for instance, some halvas are made of milk, or beans, etc. I couldn't speculate what pollen protein would be like.