149 Safe Foods for Pet Birds: The Ultimate 2025 Guide

There are many fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and herbs that can be incredibly beneficial to your bird’s health. Adding a variety of safe, fresh foods to their diet not only supports a more balanced nutritional intake but can also help provide important vitamins and minerals that may be missing from their everyday diet.

To make it easier, we’ve created the Ultimate Safe Foods Guide to help you confidently provide your bird with only safe, nutritious options.

  • Apples - Excluding Seeds 
  • Almonds 
  • Alfalfa Sprouts
  • Asparagus
  • Artichoke
  • Apricot - Remove Seed

 

  •  Beetroot - Including Leaves
  • Beans
  • Basil
  • Bok Choy
  • Broccoli
  • Broccolini
  • Brussel Sprouts
  • Brazil Nuts
  • Barley Seeds
  • Buckwheat Seeds
  • Banana
  • Blood Orange
  • Blackberries
  • Blueberries
  • Boysenberry
  • Bunya Pine Nuts
  • Butternut Squash

 

  •  Cherries
  • Chillies
  • Chickpea
  • Coconut
  • Canola Seeds
  • Cucumber
  • Custard Apple
  • Capsicums - All Colours
  • Carrots and Carrot Tops
  • Cauliflower - Including Leaves
  • Cedar Pine Nuts
  • Celery - Including Leaves
  • Chicory Leaves
  • Corn
  • Chamomile
  • Cashews
  • Canary Seeds
  • Chia Seeds
  • Cranberry

 

  •  Dates
  • Desert Lime
  • Dragon Fruit
  • Durian
  • Dill
  • Dandelions

 

  • Endive
  • Ferijoa Figs
  • Figs
  • Finger Limes
  • Fennel
  • Flax Seeds

 

  •  Goji Berries
  • Grapes
  • Grapefruit - Red, White and Pink
  • Guava
  • Ginger Root
  • Grey Sunflower Seeds
  • Gum Nuts

 

 

  •  Hemp Seeds
  • Hulled Oats
  • Hazelnuts (Filberts)
  • Honeydew Melon
  • Jaboticaba
  • Jack Fruit
  • Jalapños

 

  • Kiwi Fruit
  •  Kumquat
  • Kale
  • Kaffir Lime - (Excluding Lorikeet Species
  • Lemon - (Excluding Lorikeet Species)
  • Lime - (Excluding Lorikeet Species)
  • Lychee
  • Lentils
  • Linseed

 

  •  Mandarin
  • Mango
  • Mangosteen
  • Mulberries (White, Red and Black)
  • Macadamia Nuts
  • Millet (Red, White and Yellow)
  • Mango Lime

 

  •  Nashi Pear
  • Nectarine
  • Nyjer Seed
  • Okra
  • Oranges - Excluding Lorikeet Species
  • Oregano


    •  Papaya
    • Passion Fruit
    • Peach - Excluding the Seed
    • Pear
    • Persimmon
    • Pineapple
    • Plum
    • Pomegranate
    • Panicum - Type of Millet
    • Red Panicum - Type of Millet
    • Panorama - Type of Millet
    • Parsnips
    • Parsley
    • Pumpkin - Including Seeds
    • Peanuts
    • Pecans
    • Pine Nuts
    • Pistachios
    • Pepita Seeds

    •  Quandong
    • Quince
    • Quinoa Seeds - Soak First
    • Raspberry
    • Radicchio
    • Radish - Including Leaves
    • Rice - White & Brown (Cooked Only)
    • Rocket (Arugula)
    • Rose Apple
    • Rock Melon (Cantaloupe)

     

    •  Strawberries
    • Salak (Snake Fruit)
    • Sapote Fruit (Yellow)
    • Soursop
    • Shirohie Millet
    • Silver beet
    • Spinach
    • Sugar Snap Peas
    • Snow Peas
    • Sweet Potato
    • Safflower Seeds
    • Sorghum
    • Sesame Seeds

     

    •  Tay Berry
    • Turnips - Including Leaves
    • Taro
    • Thyme
    • True Goose Berry (Ribes uva-crispa)
    • Tamarillo
    • Tangerine
    • Tangelo
    • Tamarind
    • Tomatoes - Fruit only

     

    •  Watermelon
    • Watercress
    • Wulnut
    • Wheat
    • Young Berry
    • Zucchini

     

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