Not necessarily. Extracting oil, you can say, is a form of processing, just like juicing an orange. I think it makes the label somewhat useless to say that, but sure. When you eat a raw soybean, though, you’re consuming soybean oil. That’s not processed in any way.
That’s an amusing semantic ploy. Let us say I am using “oil” in the culinary sense, which would not include fats still trapped in cells and fibers of the plant.
Oil is itself processed food.
Not necessarily. Extracting oil, you can say, is a form of processing, just like juicing an orange. I think it makes the label somewhat useless to say that, but sure. When you eat a raw soybean, though, you’re consuming soybean oil. That’s not processed in any way.
That’s an amusing semantic ploy. Let us say I am using “oil” in the culinary sense, which would not include fats still trapped in cells and fibers of the plant.
The term “processed food” is entirely semantic. What is considered “processing”?