The answer is yes. When preparing the food it is important to keep the meals nutritionally balanced or you could end up causing more health problems. By the time you accumulate the proper ingredients, grind, mix, package and freeze the homemade raw meat diet, you'll find a raw dog food preparer can do all the work for you at a reasonable cost.

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Freeze-drying is a process that removes the moisture from the meat in a vacuum chamber, while still frozen. By bringing the temperature to the triple point 32 degrees F (where moisture can exist as an ice crystal, water or gas), the moisture is evacuated from an ice crystal to a gas without entering the liquid stage. The minimum amount of added heat to accomplish this is insufficient to destroy the amino acids or digestive enzymes.

Freeze-drying, though considerably higher in cost, is the only way to preserve meat without chemicals, irradiation, or heat damage to nutrition. It is yet another example of Animal Food Services' commitment to nutritional excellence.

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