Fact 1: Dehydrating food is used for preserving food. Fact 2: To keep cut flowers lasting longer, use a commercial florist preservative such as Floralife. Given the two facts above, dehydrating food is used to make it what?

Options:
[i] last longer
[ii] survive
[iii] go bad
[iv] burn up
[v] get started
[vi] throw out
[vii] Relieve pain
[viii] dormant state
The answer is:
[i]