Can parrots eat sweet potato?

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Yes — sweet potato is an outstanding vitamin A source, one of the very best vegetables for parrots.

Keeper's noteCooked and cooled, or raw grated. Mashed plain sweet potato is the base of half the good 'birdie bread' recipes out there.

Why sweet potato is good for parrots

Sweet potato is the single richest common-food source of beta-carotene, directly targeting the vitamin A deficiency so common in pet parrots. Cooked, it's soft, sweet, and almost universally accepted — including by stubborn seed-junkies mid-conversion.

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