If I&#39;ve read your blog correctly, you&#39;re trying to make a move towards eating healthier, and thus it&#39;s not really the processed food you&#39;re trying to avoid, but the nutritionally unsound food. &quot;Artificial&quot; might be a better word choice; the rule of thumb then being food items with ingredients you would not find in nature/would not be able to cook with yourself (which neatly rules out your Kraft cheese). <br /><br />As Kristina points out, most food is processed, although I&#39;d argue that changing the chemical state/make-up of a food is different from simply handling it i.e. dehydrated potato flakes vs. scrubbing the potato. It&#39;s also worth noting that there are many food items that have to be processed in order to make them edible - potatoes can&#39;t be eaten raw, for example.<br /><br />Along those lines, I wouldn&#39;t put canned food on the &quot;processed&quot; list, unless you also include &quot;cooked&quot; food. How else do you store tomatoes into the off-season, for example? <br /><br />Those are my thoughts. I really enjoy reading your blog!