Cooked plain pasta is safe and many parrots enjoy it, but it's low-nutrition starch — fine occasionally, ideally whole-grain, and always without salty or oily sauce.
Keeper's noteA few pieces of plain cooked (or dry) whole-grain pasta is a fun, harmless treat. Dry pasta tubes are great for stuffing with veggies as foraging toys. No sauce.
What to watch out for with pasta
Plain cooked pasta isn't toxic; it's just refined starch with little nutritional value, so it fills the crop without earning its place. Whole-grain or veggie pasta is a bit better. The real problems are sauces — salt, oil, garlic, and onion — so plain is essential. Uncooked dry pasta is also safe and makes a fun crunchy foraging toy.
How to serve it
Cooked plain — no salt, oil, or sauce — or dry as a foraging toy.
Whole-grain or veggie pasta over white when possible.
Small amounts occasionally; it's filler, not nutrition.