>Bil has noted that I am mixing pollen with the honey already during the extraction process, but am I doing enough? When I started beekeeping forty years ago, I did not use queen excluders and there were indeed a lot of pollen cells in with the honey. Now I use excluders all the time and there are very few if any pollen cells in with the honey.<


I am confused.  Pollen is stored by bees as 'bee bread', moistened with nectar to start ferminaation or whatever the process is,  and packed down tight - at least in my hives. None of this gets extracted ,  at least not at the speed my extractor revolves.  The stored pollen stays in the honey combs, unless ug out and eaten by me as a delicacy as Chris has noted.  The pollen mites reduce it to dust before next season.   So what pollen are we talking about that is loose enough to be extracted?

Robin 

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