Benefits of air-dried pet treats
Nowadays, there are more and more ways to make pet snacks. Relatively speaking, the "air-drying" (about 10-75 degrees) method is lower than the "baking" (100-200 degrees) method, so it can retain more nutrients and also contains Slightly roasted food has an aroma and is more "meaty" and less "prickly" than high-temperature drying. Therefore, according to the survey report, it is also a classic snack that most furry children prefer.
The following is a post accidentally discovered on Facebook social media
After I bought dried snacks to feed my dog last night, I experienced a nightmare that lasted for three days. The pet ate it the next day. I started to experience intermittent vomiting of yellow water, stomach pain and diarrhea. I immediately searched online articles and suspected that it was a bacterial infection that could lead to acute gastroenteritis and food poisoning, so I immediately sent him to a clinic. After going home and taking the medicine, I saw that even when the dog was resting, his hands and feet were still shaking, and I felt guilty that my choice had caused him to be like this. It was really heartbreaking.
So after that, we at FUZZYWUZZYCARE began to look for different methods of making air-dried snacks, researching "What kind of temperature can kill the bacteria in the food?" I read the meat guidelines of the Food Administration Bureau and the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, foreign logs, food safety regulations, processing details, including the "Bacteria and Temperature Relationship Table" made by some very scientific experts, etc.
(At the same time, we have also seen more, such as reports of chemical preservatives found in pet snacks in Zongheng stores, and their irreversible harm to pets’ internal organs.) Of course, let’s focus on air-dried snacks first.
Use raw meat to make air-dried pet snacks?
In fact, including the meat consumed by humans, they all contain certain bacterial and even viral infections.
Raw meat may contain toxic bacteria or parasites:
Bacteria: E. coli, Salmonella, Staphylococcus aureus, Yersinia enterocolitica, Listeria
Parasite: Trichinellosis
Mold: Such as Koji mold, etc.
Orally transmitted microorganisms: such as dysentery, cholera, typhoid, etc.
These bacteria are likely to cause flu-like symptoms such as nausea and vomiting, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, fever and chills that can last for several days and be very painful. To prevent food poisoning, it must be thoroughly steamed and sterilized.
Temperature chart of bacterial growth and reproduction
In fact, 40-60 degrees is still the temperature at which some high-temperature bacteria can reproduce; 60-74 degrees is the temperature at which some bacteria can still survive, but has been prevented from multiplying; and 74-100 degrees can truly destroy most bacteria. Therefore, in order to ensure food safety, food must be thoroughly cooked and then air-dried to effectively stop bacterial reproduction (especially the speed of bacterial reproduction: Clostridium perfringens doubles every 10 minutes, and most bacteria can complete a single cell within five hours. Millions of generations, so it is important not to give bacteria a chance to reproduce ), especially fish, meat! Of course, because of this, the "beautiful appearance" of snacks made with "raw meat sauce" will be sacrificed, but food safety is always the most important thing.
Many of the pet snacks have a certain thickness of 2cm. After air-drying, it is still a mystery whether the inner core of the meat is completely cooked. Therefore, for the sake of food safety, it is recommended to steam it at 100 degrees to eliminate most possible bacteria. , while preventing these bacteria from reproducing further without being completely eliminated.
Should you choose "air drying" or "high temperature baking"?
Yes, when you see this, you may be thinking, why not just buy high-temperature processed jerky to solve the problem?
But in fact, when processing meat, in addition to the fact that the temperature is too high, which can easily cause the food to "prick", too high a temperature is harmful.
According to actual research, too low a temperature cannot eliminate bacteria and bacterial reproduction, while too high a temperature (cooking at a temperature higher than 140-150°C ) can easily decompose or denature the protein of high-protein foods such as beef, pigs, fish, and chicken . , producing toxic substances such as isocyclic amines, acrylamide, and isocyclic amines. The longer the high-temperature cooking time, the more harmful carcinogens will be produced.
Food cooked at high temperatures for a long time may have become a ball of "poison" (crying)
Making air-dried snacks from cooked meat?
We will call the production method "cooked air-dried pet snacks", which means that after a certain period of time, it will be steamed at 100 degrees to eliminate most possible bacteria and prevent bacterial reproduction, and then further air-dried at 75 degrees for 8 hours. Strictly prevent cats and dogs from getting diarrhea, abdominal pain, food poisoning and infection after eating raw meat air-dried snacks (pet snacks made directly from raw meat).
FUZZYWUZZYCARE: Understanding the best production methods is to make the best pet snacks!
In addition to this tedious "cooked and air-dried" production method, Fuzzywuzzycare's pet snacks are strictly formulated with a calcium-phosphorus ratio , so that cats and dogs with kidney problems can eat with confidence, further reducing the burden on the kidneys. After all, we don't just want to make pet snacks. We want to make: healthy, natural, balanced, safe and the best pet snacks for cats and dogs!
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