Processed meat
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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Noun
- 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.
"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."
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More examples"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."
Etymology
From processed + meat.