Toxic Foods

There are a lot of things you can give your rats as treats, but you need to be careful. Some stuff out there is toxic for them.

However, before we list which foods they are, we need to mention that we found "conflicting" advice on some of the items listed below on whether or not they are truly harmful. Yet it is our opinion that it is better to be safe than sorry! Rats do not "require" the intake of any of these foods to be healthy/happy, so if there is even a slight possibility of them being harmful to your rats, why not steer clear of them.


Be Safe! Avoid These Foods Completely!

Apple Seeds

Citrus Fruit Skins/Citrus Juices

Any Pit, From Any Fruit

Green Bananas

Bleu Cheese

Raw Artichokes

Raw Sweet Potato

Raw Brussel Sprouts

Licorice

Raw Uncooked Beans or Raw Uncooked Peanuts

Raw Red Cabbage

Raw Onion

Alcohol

Raw Potato Skins and Eyes

Wild Insects (Can carry internal parasites.)

Carbonated Beverages (Because they can't burp.)

Dried Corn

Rawhide

Sticky things (Such as peanut butter, taffy, jelly beans, and caramels because they can gum up in their throat and cause them to suffocate.)


And Greatly Limit Their Intake Of...

Corn

Beets

Celery

Eggplant

Chocolate

Avocados

Lettuce

Cucumber

Radishes

Spinach

Collards

Turnip Greens

Almonds

Swiss Chard

Rhubarb

From: Rattyrat.com