And that argument is wrong.

A “sandwich” doesn’t have an explicit general meaning, but almost nobody would classify a pizza as an open face sandwich.

Likewise, the vast majority of people would consider a carrot (peeled or otherwise) “unprocessed food” and would consider cheetos “processed food”.

I'm not in it for the rightness and wrongness and virtue and exercises of justice to the carrots, I'm in it for your request as to whether peeling a carrot counts as processing, which it does, as sometimes the most banal of examples illustrate a tapestry of lived complexity.

Carry on, friend.