Vitamin Reduction
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This is also where you can have some FUN while sharing the enjoyment you get from your blueys!
- UroFreak13
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Vitamin Reduction
Ok so I've been doing this technique for a bit after being recommended to me, which is using a food processor to blend up a good mixture then freeze in ice cube trays but does this decrease the vitamin content?
- Scotts1au
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Re: Vitamin Reduction
There will always be some rate of decline, particularly for volatile vitamins such as Vit C. Other factors include oxygen exposure (such as the blending process) and time, this process is slowed by freezing but not ceased completely. Vitamins in meat such as endogenous Vit D as a rule don't break down as quickly. Other factors that reduce nutritional value include heating - all up though blueys don't need a lot of vitamins as their needs are usually related to respiration rate, which for reptile is relatively low. From the sounds of it what you're doing is perfectly adequate.
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. M. Andretti
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Re: Vitamin Reduction
Cool thanks a lot!!!
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