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pasteurized

  • past participle
    of pasteurize.
    pasteurize
    verb (used with object)
    to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • past tense form
    of pasteurize.
    pasteurize
    verb (used with object)
    to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.

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The study followed adults who drank 500ml of pure pasteurized orange juice every day for two months.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

By definition, it has not been pasteurized, the simple process of heating milk to kill off harmful bacteria.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

Even after being squeezed and processed and pasteurized, the juice was gross.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

They point out that pasteurized milk has also been linked to outbreaks, although many scientists say raw milk is associated with a higher occurrence of foodborne illnesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

From eighteen hundred bottles eighteen hundred carefully labelled infants were simultaneously sucking down their pint of pasteurized external secretion.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley