User blog:The1AndOnlyMike/So I was bored and looked up how honey is made.

Long story short worker bees "chew" nectar from the foraging bees. The enzymes they produce turns it into easily digestible goop and they put it into honeycombs where excess water evaporates leaving honey, which they then seal up with beeswax.

Basically we eat the bee equivalent of chewed up food.