[becciwales]

Originally Posted by alley cat

Might be a silly question but as the plants grow the nutrients are in them, if they get dried up by the sun does that remove the nutrients or just the moisture content of the plant? would it mean that the tortoise just drinks more and rehydrates the plants within its system? a bit like adding boiling water to dried packet foods such as stuffing!?

I would think it would remove a lot of the nutrients, when we cook veg, much of the original nutrients are destroyed. But obviously cooking them is different to being dried/baked by the sun, so I may be wrong. x