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Global trend is shifting towards natural healthy food product as consumers are demanding food products that are minimally processed. Bee pollen have been recognized as a natural health supplement due to its excellent nutritional and medicinal properties. It has abundance of proteins, lipids, carotenoids, carbohydrates, vitamins, all the essential amino acids and various secondary metabolites. However, due to differences in botanical and geographical origin, the nutritional properties of bee pollen vary greatly. They are attaining great demand in the market as functional component in different food products. Commercially bee pollen is available in the form of granules, pellets, powders and capsules. There is no recent paper available that emphasizes on recent work of involving application of bee pollen in food products and their processing conditions. The current study thus provides an overview of different food products incorporated with bee pollen as functional component.