Guinea Pig Dangerous Foods List

These foods are UNSAFE for guinea pigs or a potential DANGER. Please make sure any food you give to your guinea pig is safe before consumption. Don’t assume!

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FOOD / PLANT / FLOWER
Notes
Aconite
Anemone (windflower, tumbleweed)
Autumn crocus
Avodaco
Any kind – Too high in fat.
Baked goods (cakes, cookies)
Beans
Any kind – causes gas/bloating.
Black locust
Buttercup
Caladium
Caster oil plants (castor bean, palma)
Cherry trees (wild and cultivated)
Chiles
Christmas pepper
Clematis (virgin’s bower)
Coconut
Any kind – Too high in fat.
Coffee, soda
High in sugar, caffeine.
Cycads
Daffodil (narcissus, jonquil)
Dairy products
Daphne
Delphinum (larkspur, staggerweed)
Dicerna (bleeding heart, dutchman’s breeches, squirrel corn, turkey corn)
Diffenbachia (dumb cane)
Elderberry
Elephant ear
English ivy 
Euphorbia (annual poinsettia, mexican fire plant, fire-on-the-mountain, snow-on-the-mountain) 
Four-o’clock 
Foxglove 
Garland flower 
Garlic
Poinsonous.
Glory lily (climbing lily, gloriosa) 
Golden chain 
Gyacinth 
Hydrangea 
Holly 
Horseradish
Too pungent.
Hot herbs and spices
Lettuce – Iceberg
Low nutrition, high water content.
Iris 
Indian spurge tree (pencil tree, malabartree, pencil cactus, monkey fiddle) 
Jack-in-the-pulpit 
Jerusalem cherry 
Jams, jellies, fruit preservatives
High sugar content.
Jasmine 
Juice
High sugar content.
Lantana camera (red sage) 
Laurels 
Lilac 
Lily-of-the-valley 
Marsh marigold (cowslip) 
Matrimony vine 
Mayapple 
Meadow saffron 
Meat
Mistletoe 
Monkshood 
Mountain laurel 
Mushrooms (amanita muscaria&amanita phalloides) 
Poinsonous.
Nightshade 
Nuts
Any kind – too high in fat.
Oaks 
Oleander 
Onions
Poinsonous.
Paprikas
Peas
Any kind – will cause gas/bloating.
Peppers – hot and chiles
Philodendron
Phytolacca (poke weed, poke berry, ink berry)
Pickled vegetables (dill, pickles, capers, sauer kraut)
Pine needles
Poinciana (bird-of-paradise)
Poison hemlock
Pothos
Potatoes
Poisonous if green or sprouted. Yams and sweet potatoes are OK in moderation.
Privet
Pyracantha (firethorn) 
Raw beans 
Rhododendron (laurels, rose bay, azalea) 
Rhubarb 
Poinsonous.
Rosary pea 
Seeds
Choking hazard.
Snowdrop 
Soda, soda pop
High in sugar, caffeine.
Spring adonis (pheasant’s eye) 
Star-of-bethlehem 
Strelitzia (bird-of-paradise) 
Sweet pea 
Taro
Dangerous of eaten unprepared or raw.
Tea
Tomatillo – leaves and stalk
Poinsonous.
Tomato – leaves and stalk
Poinsonous.
Trumpet flower (chalice vine) 
Water hemlock 
Wisteria 
Yellow oleander (lucky nut, tiger apple, be-still-tree) 
Yew

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