Lafeber Tropical Fruit Nutri-Berries Bird Food

This is the bag people buy when their bird has stopped being interested in its food.

Tropical Fruit Nutri-Berries are the same hulled-seed, vitamin-coated berry as the Classic line, with real dried pineapple, papaya and mango pressed into them. Not fruit flavouring — actual pieces of fruit, which is why the berries look uneven and smell like a fruit bowl when you open the bag.

It is a complete diet, not a treat. That distinction matters, because most of the fruity bird foods on the shelf are treats sold at treat volumes and will quietly unbalance a bird fed on them.

Which one for your bird

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Ingredients

Cockatiel and Macaw formulas: hulled white proso millet, cracked corn, dried fruit (papaya, pineapple, mango), safflower, ground corn, maltodextrin, soybean meal, red millet, wheat flour, peanuts, corn syrup, glycerin, dicalcium phosphate, ground limestone, canola oil, hydrolysed soy protein, ground rice, corn gluten meal, carrageenan, iodised salt, DL-methionine, citric acid, natural colour, xanthan gum, choline chloride, and a full stabilised vitamin and chelated mineral pack.

The Parrot version leads on ground corn and uses gelatin and dried whole egg in place of the carrageenan system. The Conure version differs again. Each bag carries its own panel.

How much to feed

Lafeber's published guidance: small parrots 10 berries at a time, medium parrots 15, large parrots 20. Keep fresh food and water available and adjust to the bird in front of you. Greens, vegetables and some fruit should make up around 20% of the daily diet.

Using it to win over a fussy bird

The honest reason this sells is that birds like it. A few things worth knowing:

• If your bird rejects its usual food, offering Tropical Fruit as the only option works better than offering both.
• It is a complete diet, so you can feed it exclusively — you are not creating a nutritional problem by giving your bird the one it prefers.
• Scattered through a foraging toy it works harder than in a bowl, because the fruit smell gives the bird a reason to hunt.
• A bird that suddenly goes off its food may be unwell rather than bored. Weigh it, and see an avian vet if the weight is moving.

Storage

Real dried fruit means real moisture. Reseal the bag properly, keep it cool and out of the sun, and use the size you will finish inside a couple of months rather than the biggest one on offer.

Questions we get asked

Is there added sugar?
The berries are bound with corn syrup, glycerin and maltodextrin, as all Nutri-Berries are. The fruit itself is dried fruit, not fruit syrup.

Can I feed this every day?
Yes. Lafeber formulate it as a complete daily diet.

My bird picks the fruit out and leaves the seed.
Very common in the first week. Feed smaller amounts more often so there is nothing left to pick through, and it usually settles.

Tropical Fruit or Sunny Orchard?
Tropical Fruit is pineapple, papaya and mango — brighter and sweeter. Sunny Orchard is apricot, date and cranberry — deeper and less sharp. Birds tend to have a clear preference; there is no nutritional reason to choose one over the other.

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