processed — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

1. That has completed a required process.

   Esempi

   The processed data can now be used to generate statistics.

   The bank returned her processed application by mail.

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

   Esempi

   Processed foods are of dubious nutritional value.

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

   Altri esempi (1)

   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).

Aggettivo

1. subjected to a special process or treatment

   Esempi

   processed cheeses are easy to spread

2. freed from impurities by processing

   Sinonimi

   refined

   Esempi

   refined sugar

   refined oil

3. prepared or converted from a natural state by subjecting to a special process

   Contrari

   unprocessed

   Esempi

   processed ores