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✔ Is freeze dried pet food considered raw?

Freeze-drying is a technique that preserves raw ingredients such as fresh meat to deliver a finished pet food product which is safe, shelf stable and lightweight. Freeze dried pet food is technically raw and full of nutrients. For example, a raw nugget is the same as a freeze-dried nugget when rehydrated or consumed with water!

✔ Can freeze dried pet food have salmonella?

Unlike fresh raw meat, some freeze-dried raw pet foods also go through high-pressure processing (HPP), a pasteurization process used to decrease quantities of bacteria such as Listeria, Salmonella, and E. coli. Even after HPP, freeze-dried pet food is still considered a raw food.

✔ Does freeze dried raw need refrigeration?

Freeze drying is a slow process that preserves nutrients, enzymes, and protein structures while making the food shelf stable, so it does not require refrigeration. Just place it in a room temperature. 

✔ Is Freeze dried pet food has more nutrition than dry kibbles? 

Yes. Freeze dried process removes moisture under pressure without cooking the ingredients. Keeping the nutritional integrity intact; Retaining most of the vitamins and mineral found in fresh, raw pet food. 

✔ Freeze Dried vs. Dehydrated vs. Raw vs. Dried Food

 Raw* means commercial raw pet food, not freshly purchased raw protein. 

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