Make you're own food? I have a question.

[DinoJax]

I've been dehydrating fruits and veggies for my hermit crabs. I've never done a pretreatment on them before. Does anyone know if absorbic acid-citric dips are safe? I know I can just do a lemon or lime dip but absorbic acid is stronger.

[hprmom]

I just dried apple slices for the first time and I didn't pretreat. They were supposed to be for the crabs but we ate most of them, lol, they were delicious! I just skimmed the pretreatment directions, is it mostly for looks or does it affect flavor/texture?

I sliced them paper thin with a mandolin, but they didn't get crisp like the freeze dried kind, is this your experience as well?


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[DinoJax]

Yeah I've done apples in teeny tiny cubes and they stayed a bit soft. Pretreatment the foods is supposed to help save nutrients lost in the dehydration process. I make a lot to last me about a year or so for my crabs but I'd like to have as high of nutrients as possible.

[soilentgringa]

From what I understand the ascorbic acid really just preserves the color and not any nutrients. I'd honestly skip it altogether if it's for the crabs.

[DinoJax]

The book for the dehydrater I'm using said it did both. But does not say really by how much. I'll probably do just a pineapple soak since I dry pineapple anyway.

[hprmom]

I think my book mentioned both, too, but was skimpy on details. Google?


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[DinoJax]

I was mostly trying to find out if absorbic acid in these amounts is bad for crabs.

[DinoJax]

The only difference I noticed is everything is bit chewier.