![]() What does this mean to you as the pet parent? Fruits like apples, apricots, peaches, and prunes lose about 6 percent of their vitamin A, 55 percent of thiamin, 10 percent of niacin, and 56 percent of vitamin C" - the source of this information was Wiley Encyclopedia of Food Science and Technology, however, the link they provided didn't take us through to the specific claim, so we cannot validate that. They cite their source of this statement as an article called " How Dehydrated Food Works" where they state "Depending on how the food is prepared and dehydrated, losses of heat-sensitive vitamins like vitamin C and thiamin can be significant. Freeze-dried food, in contrast, preserves nutrition and looks and tastes just like it did when fresh. Dehydrating destroys nearly half of the nutritional value. Harvest Right, the Freeze Drier company state that the process of dehydrating affects the taste, color, and nutrition. The University of Missouri states that the nutritive value of food is affected by the dehydration process - vitamins A and C are destroyed by heat and air but don't go into detail about the average % of nutrient loss or retention. Freeze-dried food retains 98%-99% of the original nutrients of the food. They go on to say that since freeze-dried food is preserved without using heat, the nutrients are almost perfectly preserved. We don't have a clinical study or paper to validate their statement, I personally had heard it was 70% = 30% loss, this was many years ago and I haven't been able to find the source of that information today. ![]() This leaves dehydrated food with an average of 50%-60% of the original nutrients. ![]() states that in reference to dehydration, the heat that causes the water to evaporate from dehydrated food, unfortunately, cooks some of the nutrients out too.
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