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Owlet

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Oct 27, 2016
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hello, recently I made a chop for Lincoln that has beans that I cooked prior because I know you need to otherwise and enzyme interfere with digestion and could be harmful. Lately I've found that Apollo will not eat wet chop but if I put it in a dehydrator so it's dry and can be left in her cage for more than a few hours she will eat it. I did this with a past chop that was beanless, would I be able to do it with the new chop or would dehydrating the beans reverse the cooking process and make the enzyme a problem again?
 

SailBoat

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Jul 10, 2015
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I'm not certain that the process would regenerate the enzymes after having been cooked /boiled. I'm going to let our science experts handle that point.
 

chris-md

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Stevens correct. Enzymes denature/break down with heat and don’t regenerate.
 

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