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Eli5: How exactly do bees make honey?

We all know bees collect pollen but how is it made into sweet gold honey? Also, is the only reason why people haven’t made a synthetic version is because it’s easier to have the bees do it for us?
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No, pollen is for making bee bread, a different sort of bee food.

Bees make honey by collecting a sugary juice called nectar from the blossom by sucking it out with their tongues. They store it in what's called their honey stomach, which is different from their food stomach.

When they have a full load, they fly back to the hive. There, they pass it on through their mouths to other worker bees who chew it for about half an hour. It's passed from bee to bee, until it gradually turns into honey. The bees store it in honeycomb cells after they fan it with their wings to make it dry out and become more sticky. When it's ready, they seal the cell with a wax lid to keep it clean.

It's a complicated physical and chemical process.  If you make "synthetic honey", you're going to have a hard time convincing folks its a replacement for the "natural", "raw" food that the bees make.