food processing
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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 discovery could help explain how disease causing microbes manage to colonize medical devices, wounds, and food processing equipment.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
"It's possible, for instance, that people with specific food anhedonia may have some deficit in the connectivity between brain regions involved in food processing and the reward circuitry."
From Science Daily • Jan. 12, 2026
In recent months, major food processing companies have felt more than a slight pinch.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025
TreeHouse Foods agreed to be taken private by Investindustrial, a European investment firm, in an all-cash transaction that values the food processing company at $2.9 billion.
From Barron's • Nov. 10, 2025
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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