Pollen is the main nutrient and protein source for bees and its composition depends on the
region or season, geographic location, vegetation species, soil, climate, water and botanical
identity. Despite the growing demand for stingless Brazilian bee products, their nutritional
and bioactive properties are underestimated. Thus, this paper aims to determine the
physicochemical and phytochemical characteristics of pollen collected by stingless bees from
Western of Pará. For the physicochemical evaluation, the parameters areaccording to the
Technical Regulation (RT) of quality for agricultural pollen. The results confirmed
differences in the physicochemical composition of the stored pollen of several studied species.
Species 01 presented high values for humidity and protein; species 02, showed low values for
nutritional components, but for the ash content value, presented good results in relation to
other species. Species 03 showsaverage results, however, low to ashes content values. For the
carbohydrate composition, all samples were in accordance with the values determined by
RTB for bee pollen. Regarding bioactive compounds (phenolic content, flavonoid content and
antioxidant capacity evaluation by DPPH free radical sequestration) presents a low variation,
which the poles collected by bees 01 and 06, obtain the best values. It has concluded that the
nutritional and bioactive components found in the pole do not have significant importance in
the several pollen sources for collection of native bees, due to the floristic variability of the
region, enormous floral visits, and singular enzymes, which provides a rich and balanced
therapeutic and nutritional high quality diet.
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