raw
n.n. not cooked or processed. You use this to describe food like fresh vegetables or meat that has not been on a stove yet.
n. in a natural state; not cooked, treated, or processed. Often used to describe materials or data before they have been refined or analysed.
I prefer raw carrots to cooked ones.
The chef prepares the sushi using only the highest quality raw fish delivered this morning.
The researcher spent weeks cleaning the raw data before any meaningful statistical patterns could be identified from the survey results.
From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”), from Proto-West Germanic hrau, from Proto-Germanic hrawaz, hrēwaz (“raw”), from Proto-Indo-European krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”). Cognate with Scots raw (“raw”), Dutch rauw (“raw”), German roh (“raw”), Swedish rå (“raw”), Icelandic hrár (“raw”), Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked”), Irish cró (“blood”), Lithuanian kraujas (“blood”), Russian кровь (krovʹ, “blood”). Related also to Old English hrēow, hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, sad, stormy, tempestuous”). More at ree.
Commonly modifies nouns related to food, materials, or information.
the meat is crudethe meat is rawLearners often use 'crude' for food, but 'crude' refers to oil or manners; 'raw' is the correct term for uncooked food.