Nutrition is the science and technology that interprets the interaction of nutrients and other substances in food and in terms of protection, growth, replica, health, and ailment of an organism. It includes meals intake, absorption, assimilation, biosynthesis, catabolism, and excretion.

Food processing is the transformation of cooked ingredients, by physical or chemical means into food, or of food into other forms. Food processing combines raw food ingredients to produce marketable food products that can be easily prepared and served by the consumer.