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How our honey is made

We buy honey from honey farms, then process, bottle and label it ourselves. Our forest honey and cheruthen are the exception: we sell them raw.

Where our honey comes from

We buy honey in bulk from honey farms. Then we process it, bottle it and label it ourselves, at our own processing unit.

Inside the Royal Honey processing unit: stainless-steel honey tanks, a yellow control panel and pipework against a red and white wall
Our processing unit.

Processed honey

Processed honey, in nine steps

Our Royal Honey natural honey, and the honey in all our blends, goes through these steps. Follow the honey down the line.

  1. Receive honey from the farms

    Raw honey arrives in bulk from the honey farms we buy from.

  2. Warm it gently

    Gentle warming lets the honey flow and melts any honey that has gone solid.

  3. Strain

    Straining takes out wax and bits of comb.

  4. Filter

    A finer filter takes out the small particles left after straining.

  5. Reduce moisture

    Too much water makes honey ferment, so extra moisture is taken out.

  6. Pasteurise

    Pasteurising slows fermentation and delays the honey going solid.

  7. Cool

    The honey is cooled before it goes into bottles.

  8. Bottle

    We fill glass and PET bottles and jars, from 50 g to 1 kg.

  9. Label

    Each label carries the net weight, our name and address, and our FSSAI details.

A stainless-steel honey processing machine with a yellow control panel, tanks and tall pipes Tall stainless-steel columns and tanks in the processing unit Close-up of a stainless-steel processing vessel with a pressure gauge and valves

The machines in our processing unit.

Raw honey · not heated or processed

Raw honey, bottled as it comes

Our three forest honeys (the white Wild Forest Honey, the yellow Forest Honey and the black Forest Honey കാട്ടുതേൻ) and our cheruthen are sold raw. We don’t heat or filter them.

Raw honey can go solid sooner than processed honey. That’s natural, and it isn’t a sign of fake honey.

Raw honey goes from the comb straight into the jar, skipping the heating and filtering machines.

Two jars of Royal Honey Wild Forest Honey with white labels reading Raw Honey, standing on a rock outdoors
Wild Forest Honey.
Inside a stingless bee hive: clusters of small brown wax pots, some broken open and full of golden cheruthen
A stingless bee hive, where cheruthen comes from.

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Call +91 92071 33710

Tell us which honey and size you’d like. We’ll confirm the price and when it’s ready.