5 Eating
! CAUTION: Food to AVOID at All Costs:
- Altered food: cooked, tinned, preserved, etc.
- Pickled vegetables: sour krauts, dills, capers
- Potatoes: skin and eyes are poisonous, very starchy, high in oxalic acid
- Nuts, Seeds, Lentils, Beans (exception are green beans)
- Rhubarb
- Mushrooms
- Red hot chilli peppers, Jalapeno peppers, Hot herbs and spices
- Collard Greens: could cause gas
- Bok choy
- Dairy products, Meat, Fish, Eggs, Bread, Chocolate
- Alcohol, Teas, Coffee, Carbonated Drinks, Fruit juices (exception can be made on sugar-free or unsweetened juices)
- Peanut butter, cakes, cookies, baked goods
- Iceberg lettuce: practically no nutritional value, very fibrous and watery
- Corn kernels, Popcorn: risk of choking
- Seeds: risk of choking
- Tomato leaves
- Tamarillo leaves
- Avocado, Coconut: too high in fat
- Taro: dangerous if eaten raw
- Jams, jellies and fruit preserves: too high in sugar
- Any non-guinea pig food which often contain seeds and different balance of vitamins and minerals which aren't suited for a guinea pig's dietary needs
- Any other junk we people eat. Almost anything that is nicely packed in supermarkets.