Why does Onesta Organics use dehydration?
We use gentle dehydration to preserve nutrients and avoid high heat conditions (common in baking, cooking, and extrusion production techniques) which can destroy enzymes, denature proteins, and break down many beneficial nutrients. Why does Onesta Organics use whole food-based ingredients? We use whole food-based ingredients instead of isolated food fragments (such as refined ingredients, gluten, etc.) in our pet food products to avoid the potential health problems (e.g., obesity, diabetes, allergies, etc.) associated with fragmentary processed ingredients. You can find more information about this topic at http://www.onestaorganics/blog.
We use gentle dehydration to preserve nutrients and avoid high heat conditions (common in baking, cooking, and extrusion production techniques) which can destroy enzymes, denature proteins, and break down many beneficial nutrients. Note that some dehydrated pet foods are made with dry ingredients that have previously been cooked. Be also aware of the fact that pet foods can be dehydrated at a wide range of temperatures (technically speaking, baking is a way of dehydration). We disclose the low temperatures we use for the dehydration of our pet food products to a USDA-accredited organic certification agent.
