Tomatoes...bad?

[Addicted to Tequila]

Yep... tomatoes are in the same family as nightshade believe it or not. Plant is bad... fruit is ok!

[lisark]

My Festive Amazon, Charlie, loves his cherry tomatoes. He gets two or three a week and makes a huge mess eating them. He ends up with a messy messy beak and face.

If I put in a mixture of fresh food and there's a cherry tomato in the mix, he always picks it out first.

[MsDoolittle]

Just a quick note on tomato acidity: the majority of today's common tomato varieties (not heirloom, but hybrid varieties) do not have the low acidity as their forebears did. In fact, when canning tomatoes you actually have to add lemon juice to lower the overall acidity to keep them from spoiling.
I like to give my AG a cherry tomato now and then, but I probably wouldn't feed tomatoes everyday anyway, just as I wouldn't feed citrus everyday. And, yes, leaves and stems contain glycoalkaloids, so they are definitely no-no's!

[nado]

hi , i read in a book between the food recomanded ,that the tomato is recomanded . i have 2 parrots and i give them tomato and also orange ,they dont have any prob, and i think it will provides them with vitamine C ,and it is written that they can eat quiwee also.maybee ur parrot is allergic to that kind of fruit.