Vegetables, Salad & Fruit

Vegetables, Salad & Fruit

This overview is of course not complete, but contains only varieties that seem reasonable to me. You could also feed raspberries or beetroot, for example, but that would probably only lead to more colourful birds and a wonderful “mess” in the cage.

Suitable varieties

Vegetables

Cauliflower (also leaves)

Broccoli (also leaves)

Fennel

Karotten (mit Grün)

Potato (only cooked)

Pumpkin

Swiss Chard

Bell bell pepper (with seeds)

Parsnip (root only!)

Cucumber (with seeds)

Celery

Spinach

Sweet potato (only cooked)

Tomato

Jerusalem artichoke

Courgette

Lettuce 

Chivorée

Oak Leaf

Endive salad

Lamb’s lettuce

Garden cress

Lettuce [Spray!]

Lollo Rosso

Pick lettuce

Radicchio

Arugula / Rocket

Fruits

Apple (without cores)

Apricot

Strawberry (also leaves)

Blueberry

Cherry

Kiwi (with peel)

Lychee

Melon (with peel)

Mirabelle

Nectarine

Peach

Plum

Gooseberry

Grape (with seeds)

especially recommended / important ingredients / only small amounts / harmful to health

Vegetables, Salad & Fruit

You should not use lettuce from the greenhouse (not even organic!), Because they are too heavily fertilized. So it is advisable to offer lettuce only in summer or only from own cultivation. With most types of fruit, the seeds should not be fed.

Vegetables to meet the nutritional needs

Vitamin A: carrot (1.7mg/100g)
Vitamin C: bell bell pepper (140mg/100g) / broccoli (94,0mg/100g)
Calcium: arugula (160mg/100g)
Silicic acid: cucumber

➔ Nutrient content

Little or not at all suitable

There are quite a few varieties that are suitable for parrots and large parakeets, but not necessarily for budgies and therefore better to do without.

Vegetables

  • Eggplant
  • Mushroom
  • Beans and peas
  • Ginger
  • Kohlrabi
  • Lenses
  • Radish and radish
  • Beet
  • Asparagus

Fruit

  • Banana
  • Pear and nashi
  • Clementine and tangerine
  • Pomegranate
  • Grapefruit, grapefruit and pomolo
  • Guava
  • Currant
  • Persimmon and sharon fruit
  • Orange
  • Physalis
  • Star fruit
  • Kumquat
  • Lime and lemon
  • Mango
  • Passion fruit
  • Papaya and babaco
  • Quince

Harmful or fatal

Avocado (giftig)
  • Avocado (lethal)
  • Mushroom, asparagus, beans and peas
  • Citrus
  • Salads from the greenhouse (high nitrate content)
  • Collard greens (indigestion)
  • H.-J. Kühne: “Die Ernährung der Papageien und Sittiche” (Arndt-Verlag)
  • A. Wilbrand: “Futterpflanzen für Vögel” (Oertel+Spörer)
  • V. Oertel & P. Wolf : “Früchte, Gemüse & Nüsse” (Arndt-Verlag)