Air-dried food

Air-dried diets were poorly studied in the veterinary literature and no clinical comparisons between air-dried vs. commercial extruded kibble were available for comparison. A single clinical trial evaluated the presence of inflammatory by-products in urine and found minimal difference. Regarding safety, these diets were also poorly studied compared to the freeze dried raw and raw counterparts, though general food safety studies have demonstrated that air-drying alone is insufficient to eliminate pathogens compared to traditional bacterial elimination methods. This suggests that air-dried diets alone (without additional bacterial elimination techniques) may still pose an increased risk of bacterial transmission compared to extruded kibble, though data is extrapolative.