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How about Freeze Dried Pet Food
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How about Freeze Dried Pet Food
 
1、What is freeze dried pet food?
Pet is a pearl in the palm for its owner, and the owner is always too surprised in the face of dazzling pet food. At present the most popular pet food is the freeze dried pet food on the market. If we want to get freeze dried pet food, firstly we need to know what is freeze drying or lyophilization? Freeze-drying works by freezing the material and then reducing the surrounding pressure to allow the frozen water in the material to sublimate directly from the solid phase to the gas phase. After freeze drying, the freeze dried pet food keeps the original color, aroma, taste, appearance and nutriment, it does not contain any additives, so it is the most ideal food for pets.
 
  • What is the freeze drying procedure?
  • Cleaning up raw material. Chicken, salmon and other fatty meat need to remove the fat which is easily leading to oxidativecorruption.
 
②Cutting raw material into different shapes whatever you need and put them into trays, then the trays would be loaded by trolley into IQF (Individual Quick Freezer) is an individual freezer out of the pet freeze drying machine, It comes with radiant freeze dryer only) to freezefor about 3 hours; IQF, loading workshop and unloading workshop would be connected with rails. After the pre-freezing, the pre-frozen material would be put into chamber of freeze dryer and heated to sublimate for about 14 to 15 hours to complete the whole cycle.
 
③Unloading, the freeze dried pet food which is required to be packed promptly in a cleaner and drier environment in order to prevent regaining moisture, then defrost for 1 to 2 hours for the next batch of production.
 
  • How is the biological safety of the freeze dried pet food? Freeze dried pet food is adopted fresh liver, meat, fish, shrimp, fruits, vegetables as raw materials without any additives and pigment, it can completely sterilize the microbes and bacteria may exist in the raw material by vacuum freeze drying process, so the freeze dried food is quite safe for pets.
 
  • What are the advantages of freeze dried pet food?
Freeze dried pet food has many advantages compared todry pet food, it mainly manifests in the following three points:
  • High nutrition: freeze drying is a slow process under the circumstances of vacuum and low temperature, which ensures that the nutrient will not lose and be destroyed. Meanwhile protein, amino acids, vitamins, microelement and bioactive substances are 100% remained after freeze drying process. 50g freeze dried product is equal to 250g fresh raw material, taking freeze dried chicken for an example, and main ingredient is as following: 80% protein, 7.5% crude fat, 0.1% crude fiber, 7.0% crude ash and 3% water.
  • Lasting natural aroma: freeze drying process ensures that the liver, meat, fish, fruit and vegetables keep their natural flavor and maintain lasting natural aroma.
  • Highly digestion: freeze dried pet food is super easily digested, so that it is quiet good for pets to absorb and make pets more healthy, lively, smart and cute.
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