Another advantage of fresh fruit is that it brings fun into the everyday life of a pet bird. Many birds love to play with their food, and also they enjoy the taste of it. It's a good idea to serve diffetent kind of fruit because all birds have their favourite food. The linnie on the right loves apple.

Healthy sorts of fruit:
Apple	Apricot	Asian pear	Banana
Blackberry	Blackcurrant	Black Elder	Blood orange
Blueberry	Canteloupe melon	Cape gooseberry	Carambola
Cherimoya	Cherry	Clementine	Cranberry
Custard apple	Dried dates1	Fig (fresh and dried)1	Gooseberry
Grape	Grenadine	Guava	Honeydew melon
Huckleberry	Japanese Persimmon	Kiwifruit	Loquat
Lychee (Litchi)	Mandarin	Mango	Melon2
Mulberry3	Nectarine	Opuntia fruit	Orange
Papaya	Peach	Pear	Persimmon, Japanese
Pineapple	Plum	Quince	Rambutan
Raspberry	Redcurrant	Strawberry	Tangerine
Tamarillo (Tree tomato)	Yellow Plum

1) You can get sugar free dried dates and figs in food stores that can be served to budgies as a sweet. Please do not give it to them too often because it contains a lot of fructose and your parakeets would become too fat.

2) Any kind of melon is a highly appreciated goody for all pet bird species. From water melon to honeydew melon and cantaloupe melon, everything can be served to your feathered friends.

3) Budgies not only love to eat the berries but also the leaves of the mulberry plant.

Please do never offer the following fruit to your budgies:

Avocado (too fatty and toxic for birds near kernel)
Fresh dates (they contain too much tanning agent)
Grapefruit, Pomelo (too much citric acid and bitter)
Kumquats (too acidic)
Passion fruit (nearly all sorts contain too much citric acid)
Japanese persimmons, unripe (contain too much tanning agent, ripe ones are ok)
Lemon or Lime (too much citric acid)

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