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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Traoré has presented such projects as evidence of Burkina Faso becoming more economically self-reliant, alongside investments in industries including cotton, textiles and food processing.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
In one 2017 paper, he and his team explicitly say that food processing is not the issue, as all foods are processed.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
L.A.’s early cold storage facilities were located on Central and Santa Fe avenues near the Santa Fe rail line, food brokers, distributors and food processing plants, the Los Angeles Conservancy said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 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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