processed food
Industrially prepared edibles
Processed food is food that has been altered from its natural state through methods like canning, freezing, drying, or adding preservatives.
The term ranges from minimally processed items like bagged salad to heavily processed products like instant noodles or frozen dinners.
In health discussions, processed food typically carries negative connotations, implying artificial ingredients and diminished nutritional value: I'm trying to cut processed food from my diet.
- frozen dinnerPremade meal, sold cold
- TV dinnerPackaged frozen meal
- microwave mealPre-made food for quick reheating
- preservativesDecay-preventing substances
- trans fatsChemically altered dietary lipids
high fructose corn syrup · artificial flavors · obesity · thickeners · emulsifiers · freezing · sweeteners · stabilizers · canning · colorants · fortifiers · blanching · industrial agriculture · diabetes · extrusion · drying · antioxidants · heat-and-eat
- fast food criticismportion size, calorie count, grease, freshness, wait time
- food issuesfactory farming, GMOs, pesticides, misleading labels, artificial sweeteners
- Ready-Madeready-made, off-the-shelf, prefabricated, prefab, prebuilt
- consumer goodscars, clothing, furniture, electronics, toys
- food termsprotein, carbohydrate, flavor, fat, taste
- manufactured goodsautomobiles, appliances, auto parts, cars, trucks
processed foodwhole food
Unrefined, unprocessed edibles
raw food · fresh produce · fresh food · whole foods · fresh fruit
processed foodnatural food
Minimally processed edibles
whole food · organic food · health food · clean eating · superfood
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