Can African greys eat bread?

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With caution
Bread · for African greys

Bread isn't toxic, but it offers parrots almost no nutrition and most loaves carry meaningful salt. Tiny pieces of whole-grain, low-salt bread only.

What it means for African greys

There's nothing specific to a african grey that changes the verdict on bread — it's treated the same as for parrots generally. Greys can take a larger portion than small parrots.

The full picture on bread

Bread is empty calories for a bird — refined starch that fills the crop without delivering vitamins or minerals, plus added salt in nearly every commercial loaf. A bird filling up on bread is a bird skipping vegetables and pellets.

See the full bread guide or the African grey diet guide for more.

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