processed meat

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processed meat

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Etymology

From processed +‎ meat.

Noun

processed meat (plural processed meats)

1. Any meat that has been modified to preserve or improve its flavor through methods like smoking, curing, salting, or adding chemical preservatives; includes (mechanically separated) lunch meat (like salami), as well as hotdogs and sausage.

   Hyponym: processed food

   Hyponym: lunch meat

   • 2023 September 11, Cleveland Clinic‎:

     Fatty, processed luncheon meats like bologna, salami and pepperoni have large amounts of saturated fat and sodium, both of which have been linked to cancer, obesity and heart disease ... In fact, processed meats are actually considered carcinogenic.