What is a processed food?!
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Man made chemically processed. For example, an apple is not processed. But applesauce sold in little plastic containers with added chemicals and sugar is.
A food that's been changed from its normal fresh state (except for just cleaning it or cutting it up, etc).
Processing can run from cooking then canning a food, to adding and/or removing all kinds of parts then usually packaging it. But when people talk about "processed foods" they're usually talking about highly-processed foods, which usually come out of the process unhealthier than they were in the beginning.
Freezing or canning foods are processed products
A food that was made in a factory that wasn't handled by humans.
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