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.
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.