- past participle of pasteurize.
- past tense form of pasteurize.
pasteurized
Example Sentences
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By definition, it has not been pasteurized, the simple process of heating milk to kill off harmful bacteria.
From Salon • Jun. 22, 2026
In the early 2000s, McAfee was producing pasteurized milk for the dairy group Organic Valley when a raw-milk enthusiast named James Stewart made an unusual request.
From Salon • Jun. 22, 2026
Even after being squeezed and processed and pasteurized, the juice was gross.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
They point out that pasteurized milk has also been linked to outbreaks, although many scientists say raw milk is associated with a higher occurrence of foodborne illnesses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
From eighteen hundred bottles eighteen hundred carefully labelled infants were simultaneously sucking down their pint of pasteurized external secretion.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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