UNPROCESSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unprocessed mean? 

• UNPROCESSED (adjective)
  The adjective UNPROCESSED has 3 senses:

1. not refined or processed

2. not altered from an original or natural state

3. not treated or prepared by a special process

  Familiarity information: UNPROCESSED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNPROCESSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not refined or processed

Synonyms:

crude; unprocessed; unrefined

Context example:

crude oil

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not altered from an original or natural state

Context example:

unprocessed commodities

Similar:

natural; raw; rude ((used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes)

streaming ((computer science) using or relating to a form of continuous tape transport; used mainly to provide backup storage of unedited data)

unvulcanised; unvulcanized ((used of rubber) not subjected to the process of vulcanization)

Also:

unfinished (not brought to the desired final state)

impure (combined with extraneous elements)

untreated (not subjected to chemical or physical treatment)

Antonym:

processed (prepared or converted from a natural state by subjecting to a special process)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Not treated or prepared by a special process

Similar:

fresh (not canned or otherwise preserved)

 Context examples 

Processed or unprocessed substances obtained from animal, plant, microorganism and mining source that provide nutrients for living organisms to maintain biological processes or functions.

(Food or Food Product, NCI Thesaurus)

The process of generating an image from the raw data, or set of unprocessed measurements, made by an imaging system.

(Optical Image Reconstruction, NCI Thesaurus)

Natural, unprocessed cranberries contain anthocyanidins, which prevent Escherichia coli, the typical cause urinary tract infections, from attaching to the urinary tract wall.

(Cranberry, NCI Thesaurus)

Recognition by the immune system elicits either a T-lymphocyte response, recognizing processed antigens, or a B-lymphocyte response, producing antibodies that bind to unprocessed antigens.

(Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)

The ultra-processed and unprocessed meals had the same amounts of calories, sugars, fiber, fat, and carbohydrates, and participants could eat as much or as little as they wanted.

(Heavily processed foods cause overeating and weight gain, National Institutes of Health)

Eating too much processed meat (8.2%), sugar-sweetened beverages (7.4%), and unprocessed red meat (0.4%) also raised the risk of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes-related deaths.

(How dietary factors influence disease risk, NIH)

A diverse assortment of nascent, immature, unprocessed RNA transcripts synthesized from DNA templates that are found in eukaryotic nuclei before post-transcriptional modifications.

(hnRNA, NCI Thesaurus)

Any whole or part of a plant (including plant exudates), animal or microorganism that is unprocessed (raw material), or that has been processed, pulverized or extracted.

(Natural Product, NCI Thesaurus)

For example, slight differences in protein levels between the ultra-processed and unprocessed diets in this study could potentially explain as much as half the difference in calorie intake.

(Heavily processed foods cause overeating and weight gain, National Institutes of Health)

For example, an ultra-processed breakfast might consist of a bagel with cream cheese and turkey bacon, while the unprocessed breakfast was oatmeal with bananas, walnuts, and skim milk.

(Heavily processed foods cause overeating and weight gain, National Institutes of Health)