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Dangerous Guinea Pig Food List – Unsafe Foods

Published: 8/23/2010 | Author: HappyCavy | Updated: 6/20/2022

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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
Notes
Aconite
Anemone (windflower, tumbleweed)
Autumn crocus
Avodaco
Any kind – Too high in fat.
Baked goods (cakes, cookies)
Beans
Any kind – causes gas/bloating.
Bishop’s Weed (Ammi majus)
May contain toxic levels of nitrates.
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)
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
Poisonous.
Glory lily (climbing lily, gloriosa)
Golden chain
Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria)
See Bishop’s Weed
Ground Elder (Aegopodium podagraria)
See Bishop’s Weed
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
Leeks
Foods in the onion family (like leeks)
are not guinea pig safe
Lilac
Lily-of-the-valley
Marsh marigold (cowslip)
Matrimony vine
Mayapple
Meadow saffron
Meat
Mistletoe
Monkshood
Mountain laurel
Mushrooms (amanita muscaria&amanita phalloides)
Poisonous.
Nightshade
Nuts
Any kind – too high in fat.
Oaks
Oleander
Olives (canned)
Pickled or brined vegetables are
NOT safe for guinea pigs
Onions
Green, yellow, and
red onions are not safe
Paprikas
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
Potato and potato tops (leaves)
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
Poisonous.
Rosary pea
Seeds
Choking hazard.
Snowdrop
Snow-in-the-mountain (Aegopodium podagraria)
See Bishop’s Weed
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
Poisonous.
Tomato – leaves and stalk
Poisonous.
Trumpet flower (chalice vine)
Water hemlock
Wisteria
Yellow oleander (lucky nut, tiger apple, be-still-tree)
Yew

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