Unsafe Vegetables, Fruits, and Plants for Guinea Pigs

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)
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
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
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
Olives (canned)		Pickled or brined vegetables are NOT safe for guinea pigs
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		Poinsonous.
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		Poinsonous.
Trumpet flower (chalice vine)
Water hemlock
Wisteria
Yellow oleander (lucky nut, tiger apple, be-still-tree)
Yew

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