Elaborats

Elaborats is a Catalan term that functions mainly as the past participle of elaborar and appears in its plural form elaborats. In everyday usage, elaborat means elaborated or prepared, and elaborats is used to describe things that have undergone preparation or manufacturing. The word is most commonly encountered in food labeling and culinary contexts to indicate processed or prepared products, as in products elaborats, aliments elaborats, or salses elaborats.

In regulatory and commercial language, elaborats is used to classify foods that have been altered from their natural state through processes such as cooking, mixing with other ingredients, preservation, or packaging. The label conveys that the item is not raw but has been subject to some form of preparation. It does not, by itself, specify the exact degree of processing, so it is typically understood alongside other descriptors such as ingredients, preservatives, or nutritional information.

Linguistic notes include that elaborats is the masculine plural form; feminine plural would be elaborades, and the singular forms are elaborat (masculine) and elaborada (feminine). The term is prevalent in Catalan-speaking regions, including Catalonia and parts of the Valencian Community, and is widely used in product packaging, menus, and regulatory texts to denote processed or prepared foods.

Related terms include elaborat, elaboració (the act of elaboration or processing), and processat, which is another Catalan term commonly used to describe processed or industrially produced foods.

See also: elaboració, alimentació, processat.