Australian dehydrated foods achieves this in the following three ways:

• Recover protein and other nutrients from organic material that would otherwise go to landfill, for example restaurant byproducts and fast food organics are turned into stockfeed and pet food.
• Address the need to dehydrate organic material that does not make it to market, for example, fresh fruit and vegetables, direct from growers. The fruit and vegetable fibre produced is suitable for both human and stockfeed purposes. Most of the organics from this source are byproducts from human grade juicing plants.
• Challenge existing animal byproduct rendering operations with a solution that is both environmentally friendly and cost effective for producers of this waste. This alternative allows the producer to process their own byproducts onsite. Byproducts that were previously considered too small to justify capital expenditure to process are now value added revenue streams.