Nature’s Menu Oven Baked Dog Food is part of our continuing evolution to provide caring, knowledgeable dog owners with optimum nutrition for their dogs. Superior nutrition is not just what ingredients are utilized, but also how these ingredients are processed. Certainly, traditional steam extruded pet food is acceptable and helps reduce the cost of production. However, slow baking at much lower temperatures increases the availability of nutrients and efficiently they can be absorbed and utilized. While the cost is a bit higher than other super premium brands of pet food, the result is a nutritionally dense product which provides higher levels of calories per serving so less product can be fed.