Lloyd Spear posts:

<I have also read this is nonsense as the human digestive system cannot 
break
down the outer coating of the pollen grain (chitin?).

I have also read this. however I have also read that the stomach acid has 
little trouble dissolving the chitin. I am inclined to accept the latter.

Alden Marshall
Hudson, NH

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