food processing
Americannoun
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the changing of agricultural products into something that humans or animals can eat.
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the use of a food processor to prepare an ingredient.
Example Sentences
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“The people being removed are disproportionately working-age, employed and without criminal records — the demographic core of the workforce in construction, hospitality, agriculture, food processing, and care work,” the report read.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
The scale—which is used for virtually all research on UPFs—does not measure food processing at all.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
This has effectively severed the supply of EU workers to NI's food processing and manufacturing plants.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
The discovery could help explain how disease causing microbes manage to colonize medical devices, wounds, and food processing equipment.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
A large food processing company offered to buy the rights and sell the hot dogs in stores, but Milton, mistakenly thinking that popularity is eternal, rejected it.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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