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Raw
Fruit, Vegetables, Herbs, Grains and Plants List
Below is a list
of raw foods that you can safely feed to guinea pigs and use in your
guinea pig dishes.
Foods to
avoid! Avoid feeding or using iceberg lettuce. It is high in water and
low in nutrition and can cause stomach upset if fed in excess. Cabbage fed
in excess can have a similar effect and if fed in excess can cause bloat.
Avoid feeding
bread, cereals or anything that could contain dairy, preservatives, sugars
or artificial colors and flavours.
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Grains / Other |
Fruit |
Vegetables |
Herbs |
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Oats
Bran
Wheat Flakes
Hay or Chaff
Barley
Lupins
Pumpkin Seeds
Organic Weet-Bix
Pollard
Legumes
Soybean Meal
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Apple
Banana
(including leaves)
Blackberries
Blueberries
Cherries
Dried Apricot
Figs
Gooseberries
Grapes
Grapefruit
Honeydew melon
Kiwi Fruit
Mango
Mulberries
Orange
Pawpaw
Pear
Pineapple
Pumpkin
Rock melon
Squash
Strawberries
Watermelon
Note - Fruits should be fed sparingly due to there high sugar
content.
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Asparagus
Baby Spinach
Beetroot
Bok Choy
Broccoli
Brussel Sprouts
Cabbage
Capsicum
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celery
Choko
Corn
(including husks)
Cucumber
Green Beans
Kale
Kolrabi
Cos Lettuce
Pak Cho
Parsnip
Pumpkin
Silverbeet
Sweet Potato
Tomato
Turnip
Wombok
Zucchini
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Alfalfa
Anise
Basil
Chamomile
Chicory
Chickweed
Cleavers
Clover
Comfrey
Coriander
Corn Silk
Dandelion
Dill
Dock
Endive
Fennel
Lemon Balm
Milk Thistle
Mint
Oat Grass
Parsley
Raspberry Leaves
Red Clover
Rocket
Rosehips
Stinging Nettle
Thyme
Wandering Jew
Watercress
Yarrow
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