COLD PROCESSING: The only processing method that does not destroy important raw natural food attributes. Used for Archetype™.

WHOLE INGREDIENT STORAGE: Grains and legumes are not ground until ready for processing and therefore do not begin degradation before processing. For example, wheat can lose up to 40% of some nutrients within 12 hours of milling.

NATURAL INSECT CONTROL: Stored ingredients are enrobed with a special non-toxic Wysong desiccated plankton, which not only suppresses insect infestation, but is a nutrient as well.

MOLD AND MYCOTOXIN TESTED AND NEUTRALIZED: Mycotoxins are an insidious poison potentially present in all dried foods. Wysong not only tests for these toxins, but incorporates nutrients that bind and neutralize them if present.

SPROUTING: The only processing method that actually increases micronutrient levels.

EXTRUSION: Dry, wet, and steam injected extrusion of ingredients maximizes nutritional value. Fresh meat and vegetable injection into the extruder, rather than preprocessed, dried, and rendered products simply mixed with grains and then extruded. Extrusion monitoring to achieve optimal cooking (gelatinization – makes plant starches digestible) of grains, inactivation of anti-nutritional factors, and protection of nutritional value. Fats and oils are micro-bubbled™ with nitrogen to purge oxygen, and are stabilized with Wysong Oxherphol™.

STORAGE: Fragile ingredients are kept in cold storage or in oxygen-free containers until processed.

DRYING: Performed effectively to reduce moisture to prevent deterioration and maintain nutritional value.

ENROBING: Fragile, heat-sensitive ingredients such as enzymes, essential fatty acids, probiotics, and certain vitamins are incorporated after the completion of processing. 

FRESH BATCHING: Products are not mass-produced and warehoused, but rather made fresh to order as much as possible.
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Q: I heard an ad on television that said their pet food was steamed, do you steam yours?
W: That claim is a bit misleading. For one, steaming has no particular merit. It is still cooking at temperatures way above where many nutrients, such as enzymes, can be preserved. Secondly, they are probably referring to extrusion processing which is commonly used by almost all manufacturers. Steam can be injected into the barrel of an extruder and steam is created when ingredients are heated as they move through the barrel. But what is actually happening in an extruder barrel is high temperature and hundreds of pounds per square inch of pressure. It is not the quaint and gentle process that 'steaming' implies.

Q: I'm a little hesitant to use your non-heat processed foods. I see one company says they slow bake. Is that the next best thing to raw?
W: Nope. It's actually one of the most destructive forms of cooking. It sounds gentle and kind but is not. If cooking is used, high temperature and short time (HTST) is the best method to preserve nutrition. That is the method used in all of the dried kibbles made by us. Your fear of raw foods is unfounded. Read the sections in our "Learn" menu on raw feeding. Remember, if health is your goal you must return to nature. No creature on the planet cooks its food--except humans. Humans do it because they think they are smarter than nature. You be the judge on that absurdity.

Q: Is your non-thermal processed foods the same as other freeze-dried products I see?
W: Not really. Commercial freeze-dry products in the market are heated in the processing in order to get the product from the frozen state to the dry state. Consumers are mislead into believing they are getting raw products when they are not. In contrast, the Wysong objective is to provide a truly raw product that never exceeds maximum tolerable temperatures that preserve enzymes and other nutrients. We employ incredibly high vacuum and our process requires days, theirs requires hours. We also have our own state of the art processing facility so we can control these parameters whereas others farm their processing out to manufacturers that have speed and production efficiency as primary concerns. The difference in our methods can also be noted in the incredible palatability of the Wysong products and the healthful results they create.