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food processing

American  
[food prah-ses-ing] / ˈfud ˈprɑ sɛs ɪŋ /

noun

  1. the changing of agricultural products into something that humans or animals can eat.

  2. the use of a food processor to prepare an ingredient.


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The company has said that at its factory in England "you wouldn't even know there was a food processing plant on site".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 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

To better understand how this protein influences taste and texture, the researchers further refined the process at the pilot-scale food processing facilities at AberInnovation.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 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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