A pet food product and method which utilizes meaty, whole, otherwise unaltered raw animal source ingredients which are coated, bonded and sealed with concentrated dried/dehydrated/and/or freeze dried vegetables, fruits, seeds, or other plant based nutrient powders, flakes, or other particle forms of dry shelf-stable vegetables or fruits. The raw animal-sourced ingredients could be the flesh or muscle meats, organ meats, or connective tissue from beef cattle, bison, elk, venison, lamb, mutton, other mammalian sources, or any form of poultry, or any fish or other marine protein ingredients. Sources could include, but would not be limited to liver, hearts, muscle meats, kidneys, tripe, spleen, lungs, and tendons, or any animal based protein source.
