Fruit & Veg
Foods to avoid:  Alcohol, Apple seeds, Artificial sweeteners, Avocado, blue cheese, cream cheese. Caffeine, Chocolate, Fat, Honey, Moldy cheese, Moldy grains, Salt, Sugar
Fruit & Veg should be a large part of an Eclectus Parrots daily diet. Their extra long digestive tract & extra high sensitivity to the environment & foods compared to other parrot species means you need to be careful with the diets you put them on. The larger the variety of fruit & veg the better. An Eclectus diet is ideally 80% soft foods & 20% everything else. They also require high vitamin A, high vegetable protein & low meat protein. Berries should be given daily. As a general rule the brighter yellows, oranges & reds the fruit & veg the higher the nutritional value. Veg that is rich in dark green are also very nutritional. The paler the green, the more water content & less, if any the nutritional value. These are veg like celery & ice burg lettuce. These are fine offered occasionally as a food. Unlike most people believe the watery veg does not cause diarrhoea, it just makes their poop watery because of the content of the water in the veg.
Fruit & Veg mixes should be as different as you can make them for each meal. Eclectus Parrots can get bored with eating the same food every day. I offer a different mix every 2 to 3 days to keep my birds interested in their meals. Eclectus Parrots love a good variety of foods. Rich green, bright red & orange fruit & veg have the highest nutritional value.
Apple (sparingly)
Asparagus
Bananas
Beetroot
Berries (any in season)
Bok choy
Broccoli (broccoli leaves are very high in Vitamin A)
Capsicums, all colours (red is higher in vitamin A)
Carrots & carrot tops
Cauliflower
Celery (sparingly)
Cherries
Chilli
Citrus Fruits (mandarin, orange lemon, lime etc)
Coconut
Cos Lettuce
Curly Lettuce
Custard Apple
Figs
Grapes (sparingly)
Guava
Kale
Kiwi fruit
Lime, lemon or orange (rind or squirt of these juices)
Lychee
Mango
Mangosteen
You can also add a variety of nuts excluding peanuts & a few seeds like sesame seeds, poppy to the fruit & veg mixes
Nashi pear
Passion fruit
Paw paw & seeds
Pears & seeds (different colours & varieties)
Pepitas
* Persimmons
Pineapple
Plums, apricot, peaches
  (when in season & pips removed)
Pomegranates
Pumpkin & seeds (Japanese &
  butternut are the sweeter ones)
Star fruit (seeded)
Radish  (can be grated to release anti oxidants)
Red giant mustard greens
red mignonette lettuce
Red mizuna
Silver beet
Snow peas or snap peas
Spinach
Starfruit
Sweet Potato
Tomato
Turnips (can be grated to release anti oxidants)
Watermelon (no seeds)
Zucchini
 
It is important to scrub your fruit & veg weather it’s local, organic or not. Fruit & veg always has to be washed to get rid of any harmful bacteria that is on it as well as pesticides. Buy organic & local when ever you can but it isn’t always possible to do.

A good scrub with a soft bristle brush under water will get your fruit & veg clean but for a better wash you can try Safeguard Fruit & Veggie Wash. It’s organic & main ingredients are aloe vera, citrus, olive leaf extract. It removes all wax & residues, chemicals that you can’t remove from washing in water. You can also make a spray out this. I do not see a reason for it not to be safe for birds.

This product was made by a local Fremantle woman & is available to all of Western Australia & some parts of Eastern Australia.




Carrot, rocket, bok choy, broccoli
A flower & leafy mix.
Nasturtium flowers, sage flowers, grevillea flowers, gum flowers, silverbeat, american mustard leaves, lemon grass, rocket
Most veggies are great for parrots & nearly all can be eaten by parrots but there are a few that are poor quality. Poor quality foods usually have very little nutrition in them & your parrot will not benefit from them.





All of these foods are enjoyed by many parrots but nutrition wise they don’t benefit from eating them.
Iceburg Lettuce
Celery
Potato
Corn
Here's a list of fruit & veg you can offer. I can offer these to my birds nearly all year round since we have a great variety of fruit & veg here. This is only a small part of what can be offered. This list is fresh fruit & veg.
* Persimmons is on some toxic lists. Unripened persimmons contain the soluble tannin shibuol however, you can feed you bird persimmons that is completely ripe, safely. You can also cook it if you choose to
Washing Fruit & Veg