processed

comparative more processed · superlative most processed

1. That has completed a required process.

   The bank returned her processed application by mail.

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   The processed data can now be used to generate statistics.

2. Modified through manufacture such as refinement or food processing.

   Processed foods are of dubious nutritional value.

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   You know why I stopped eating processed foods? I began to picture the people who might be processing them.

   1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 80

   Of the 10 ultraprocessed food categories they looked at, two were clearly associated with greater risk: sugar-sweetened drinks (like soda and fruit punch) and processed meat, poultry and fish (like bacon, hot dogs, breaded fish products, chicken sausages and salami sandwiches).

   2024 September 5, Alice Callahan, “Are Some Ultraprocessed Foods Worse Than Others?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2024

   Synonyms: refined, manufactured

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of process