Is Dried Food Healthy?
You bet! Drying fresh fruits and vegetables removing only their water is the easiest, cheapest and healthiest way to preserve fresh food. It’s the way nature does it. The dehydrator mimics the sun but goes one step better, because often the sun is too hot. Dehydrating actually inhibits the growth of microbes like bacteria. The circulation of warm, dry air removes the water they depend on to live. Drying food only minimally affects its nutritional value. Most research has been on foods that were commercially dried. When you dry foods at home under gentle conditions (correct temperature and a reasonable drying period) you produce a high-quality nutrient-rich food. Compared with canning, freezing and baking, all of which involve extreme temperatures, food drying is the least damaging form of food preservation. The process of drying fruit and storing it in jars was recorded long time ago before the birth of Christ. Today the only truly healthy dried fruits are the fruits you dry yourself a
