I'm not sure if you can count frozen food as "processed food"? If I wash and cook a tomato, I would still count that as an unprocessed food, wouldn't I? So frozen food is still unprocessed in my opinion. Either that or no one except for raw foodists who don't wash their food eats unprocessed food.

And of course: freshly harvested vegetables beat frozen ones.

I was with you all the way until "Frozen vegetables are better for you!" On the plant ripening definitely feels right but then that itself is falling prey to the narrative appeal to naturalness isn't it? Seems like another empirical question (on vs off plant ripening) I'm pretty sure we can really answer any better than the salt, fat, msg, gluten, etc questions.

of course its unfathomable to eat food that doesnt need to spend weeks travelling. If locally grown and bought at a farmers market (or from CSA) then one could have food that was picked a few days before consumption.

I'll just drive an hour to the nearest farmer's market, hoping they're actually open according to their loose-at-best schedule, also hoping there's something on offer that I can/want to eat. To desire anything more convenient or reliable is unfathomable!