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Cooked vs Processed - What's the difference?

cooked | processed |

As adjectives the difference between cooked and processed

is that cooked is of food, that has been prepared by cooking while processed is that has completed a required process.

As verbs the difference between cooked and processed

is that cooked is past tense of cook while processed is past tense of process.

cooked

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of food, that has been prepared by cooking.
  • Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.
  • (idiomatic) (of accounting records, intelligence) partially or wholly fabricated, falsified
  • Antonyms

    * raw * uncooked

    Derived terms

    * cooked mode

    See also

    * cook the books

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cook)
  • processed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That has completed a required process.
  • The processed data can now be used to generate statistics.
    The bank returned her processed application by mail.
  • Modified through manufacture such as refinement or food processing.
  • Processed foods are of dubious nutritional value.

    Synonyms

    * (modified through manufacture ): refined, manufactured

    Antonyms

    * unprocessed * (modified through manufacture ): natural

    Derived terms

    * processed foods

    Verb

    (head)
  • (process)