Can parrots eat bread?

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With caution
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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.

Keeper's noteA fingernail-sized piece of whole-grain toast as a rare share is fine. If you bake your own salt-free bread, you can be a little more generous.

What to watch out for with bread

Bread is empty calories for a bird โ€” 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.

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