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Dangerous Guinea Pig Food List – Unsafe Foods
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Guinea Pig Dangerous Foods
The below Guinea Pig Dangerous Foods List is a compilation of vegetables, fruits, and herbs that are not safe for guinea pig consumption.
Jump to the Guinea Pig Safe Food List to find out what plants are edible for guinea pigs.
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FOOD / PLANT / FLOWER
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Aconite
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Anemone (windflower, tumbleweed)
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Autumn crocus
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Avodaco
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Any kind – Too high in fat.
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Baked goods (cakes, cookies)
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Beans
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Any kind – causes gas/bloating.
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May contain toxic levels of nitrates.
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Black locust
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Buttercup
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Caladium
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Caster oil plants (castor bean, palma)
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Cherry trees (wild and cultivated)
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Chiles
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Christmas pepper
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Clematis (virgin’s bower)
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Coconut
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Any kind – Too high in fat.
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Coffee, soda
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High in sugar, caffeine.
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Cycads
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Daffodil (narcissus, jonquil)
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Dairy products
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Daphne
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Delphinum (larkspur, staggerweed)
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Dicerna (bleeding heart, dutchman’s breeches, squirrel corn, turkey corn)
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Diffenbachia (dumb cane)
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Elephant ear
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English ivy
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Euphorbia (annual poinsettia, mexican fire plant, fire-on-the-mountain, snow-on-the-mountain)
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Four-o’clock
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Foxglove
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Garland flower
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Garlic
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Poisonous.
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Glory lily (climbing lily, gloriosa)
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Golden chain
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Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria)
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See Bishop’s Weed | ||
Ground Elder (Aegopodium podagraria)
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See Bishop’s Weed | ||
Gyacinth
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Hydrangea
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Holly
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Horseradish
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Too pungent.
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Hot herbs and spices
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Lettuce – Iceberg
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Iris
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Indian spurge tree (pencil tree, malabartree, pencil cactus, monkey fiddle)
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Jack-in-the-pulpit
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Jerusalem cherry
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Jams, jellies, fruit preservatives
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High sugar content.
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Jasmine
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Juice
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High sugar content.
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Lantana camera (red sage)
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Laurels
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Leeks
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Foods in the onion family (like leeks)
are not guinea pig safe |
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Lilac
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Lily-of-the-valley
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Marsh marigold (cowslip)
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Matrimony vine
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Mayapple
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Meadow saffron
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Meat
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Mistletoe
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Monkshood
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Mountain laurel
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Mushrooms (amanita muscaria&amanita phalloides)
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Poisonous.
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Nightshade
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Nuts
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Any kind – too high in fat.
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Oaks
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Oleander
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Olives (canned)
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Pickled or brined vegetables are
NOT safe for guinea pigs |
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Onions
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Green, yellow, and
red onions are not safe |
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Paprikas
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Peppers – hot and chiles
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Philodendron
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Phytolacca (poke weed, poke berry, ink berry)
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Pickled vegetables (dill, pickles, capers, sauer kraut)
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Pine needles
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Poinciana (bird-of-paradise)
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Poison hemlock
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Potato and potato tops (leaves)
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Pothos
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Potatoes
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Poisonous if green or sprouted. Yams and sweet potatoes are OK in moderation.
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Privet
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Pyracantha (firethorn)
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Raw beans
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Rhododendron (laurels, rose bay, azalea)
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Rhubarb
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Poisonous.
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Rosary pea
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Seeds
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Choking hazard.
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Snowdrop
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Snow-in-the-mountain (Aegopodium podagraria)
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Soda, soda pop
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High in sugar, caffeine.
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Spring adonis (pheasant’s eye)
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Star-of-bethlehem
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Strelitzia (bird-of-paradise)
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Sweet pea
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Taro
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Dangerous of eaten unprepared or raw.
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Tea
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Tomatillo – leaves and stalk
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Poisonous.
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Tomato – leaves and stalk
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Poisonous.
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Trumpet flower (chalice vine)
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Water hemlock
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Wisteria
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Yellow oleander (lucky nut, tiger apple, be-still-tree)
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Yew
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