unfinished is a possible word agreeing with consuming yet not necessarily about food alone.
-1. In the context of food, it refers to the part of food in the dish after some has been eaten.
(LA Kelly, Return to Alastair, Bk.3)
He went back to his unfinished food, and she studied him in silence.
(Kerry-Anne Samuel, Angel Demon)
We sat in silence eating for a while, the food was not very nice, but I endured eating it, well picking it really. Louis was picking at his food also.
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I averted my eyes down to my plate of unfinished food.
(Sonia Gensler, The Revenant)
During supper, Mother narrowed her eyes at the unfinished food on my plate. "Are you taking ill, Willie?"
-2. However, this phrase is now idiomatic and is being used widely as a general euphemism for leftovers or wasted food.
meta: Consume does not necessarily relate to food alone. The OP has not specified the context.
[Edit per new light on context]:
The very choice of "consumption" (I know it is part of the jargon related to parsing, yet) seems to be the cause of all the difficulty. I would suggest looking for a new set of expressions rather than an antonym for "consumption",
such as:
processed – unprocessed – in-process – to-process;
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