making food safe to eat by killing ... life by adding preservatives Primary processing is the conversion of raw materials into food commodities – for example, milling wheat into flour.

A new database, GroceryDB, can show the degree of processing of more than 50,000 food items sold at Walmart, Target, and Whole Foods.

Fourteen years ago, Michael Pollan offered us Food ... machine learning algorithm (what else?) to over 50,000 real-world grocery items from Walmart, Target, and Whole Foods [1] to bring Pollan’s ...