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room as well. The dehydrated food will also weigh less, making them perfect for
camping or backpacking meals. Dried fruit snacks are delicious and nutritious.
Ingredients for your favorite soup recipes can be dried and stored which also make
great last-minute meals, ready to cook.
Your Dehydrator Unit keeps food in the drying chamber at a computer-controlled
constant temperature. Food is bathed in a constant stream of warm dry air which
gently removes the moisture from the food. The result is beautifully dried food every
time.
You will find that drying food is practical and economical as well as easy. And it all
starts with your state-of-the-art food dehydrator.
Why Dehydration?
When done properly, few nutrients are lost during dehydration. According to the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA), dehydrating retains 95-97% of the nutrients in the
original food. In contrast, canning only preserves 20-30% and freezing only retains
40-60% of the food’s nutrition. Dehydrated food tastes good too! Since natural flavors
become concentrated as you remove moisture, the dried product is naturally delicious.
As you will soon learn, reconstitution is an integral part of dehydration.
Reconstitution refers to the adding of water to the dried food. When allowed to soak
in water, dried food absorbs the water and swells back to its original size, shape and
texture while retaining nearly 100% of its original flavor and nutrition.