From the Hive to Your Table

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Honey is a pure food, brought to your table as nature produced it with no human interference in its composition and quality.
 
The next step consists of placing the honeycomb's uncapped frames into a honey extractor which spins the honey out of the frames by using centrifugal force.

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Freshly harvested honey is kept in barrels for a period of two to three weeks before undergoing quality and chemical organoleptic testing; it is then packaged and offered to consumers.
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People are involved only in harvesting and packaging. Here is how honey extraction works: the bee-keeper takes each honeycomb out of the beehive and, using a special tool, scrapes off the wax that covers the honeycomb and breaks and removes all of its caps. This process is called uncapping: it exposes the honeycomb and uncaps the honey that is kept inside.