How liver becomes powder

Most organ supplements are made by desiccation. The organ is dried with heat, ground, and put in a capsule. It is cheap and it works, but heat is not kind to a liver. It cooks it, and some of what made the fresh organ worth eating goes out with the steam.

Freeze-drying is the other way. The organ is frozen solid, then put under vacuum so the ice leaves it as vapour without ever becoming water again. What is left is the organ with the water taken out and almost everything else where it was: the vitamins, the enzymes, the delicate fats that heat destroys first. It is slow, the equipment is expensive, and it is how the bison liver in the US blend of Modern Savage is made (our first UK batch is all beef liver). We believe that difference is most of the difference between an organ supplement that does something and one that is just brown powder.

The animals matter as much as the method. Grass-fed means an animal that lived outside and ate what it evolved to eat, and an organ from that animal is a different thing from an organ from a shed, because an organ holds whatever the animal ate. In the US blend, the bison come with the added guarantee that the industry's own code prohibits growth hormones and routine antibiotics.

If you have got this far you know more about what is in the scoop than most people know about anything in their kitchen. That was the idea.