What's a good word for displayed non-frozen non-canned vegetables in the grocery store?
Solution 1:
In a supermarket it's generally described as the "produce section"
Solution 2:
For me, fresh vegetables mean not treated for long preservation (canned, frozen, dried or else), and not freshly harvested. (Well, I do hope that there is some kind of correlation, at least in the places where I buy mine.)
In addition, the New Oxford American Dictionary has:
(of food) recently made or obtained; not canned, frozen, or otherwise preserved.
which appears to back my own usage.
Solution 3:
Definition of fresh:
7. not preserved by freezing, canning, pickling, salting, drying, etc.: fresh vegetables.
Though it also implies other meanings such as freshly harvested as you mentioned. If you don't want these implied meanings, you need to physically write "non-frozen" "non-canned" in order to be clear.