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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Lower-cost heating and cooling could also make the area more attractive to businesses that rely heavily on temperature control, such as greenhouses and food processing facilities.
From Science Daily • May 6, 2026
Nippon Ham is a brand too, but that brand is a food processing company.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 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
The utilities sector pay jump is likely due to increased demand for artificial intelligence, while the wage acceleration in food processing is likely due to restricted immigration cutting into the labor supply.
From Barron's • Dec. 24, 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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