Sweet potatoes: does the color matter?

[asagiyuu]

Part of my sister’s new diet is that she’s allowed to eat baked sweet popato and I remember reading that they can be healthy for conures. My GCC took an interest in the yellow yams I was cutting up for dinner and I wondered if she can have some? Boiled with no additives of course.

 

[Scott]

Parrots love sweet potatoes and yams! Most any cooking method is acceptable, but boiling, baking, or microwaving are common. Wait until cooled to serve plain, nothing needed!

 

[Teddscau]

Both are fine, however sweet potatoes are far more nutritious than yams. There's almost no vitamin A in yams, while there's a TON in sweet potatoes. I know a lot of people consider them to be the same thing, but it's like saying carrots and parsnips are the same thing, carob and chocolate are the same, or parrotlets and linnies are the same.

 

[asagiyuu]

Time to add sweet potatoes to the grocery list

 

[Carl_Power]

My Quaker eats the red sweet potatoes. Add a little coconut oil, you will see a winged Piranah x

 

[Teddscau]

Man, I WISH my budgies could eat sweet potato, but I found out the hard way that several of them can't digest it properly :x. Orange vomit absolutely everywhere x_x. Noah and Tiki, however, can eat almost anything (assuming it's bird safe).

 

[dhraiden]

I always read how good sweet potatoes are nutritionally for you. Unfortunately they're not a food I find tasty (outside of maybe a pie?) haha...

 

[Beeker]

I boil sweet potatoes for my parrot all the time. Cut them up into thin slices so they boil faster and then mash em up. He loves them.

 

[LeaKP]

Yep, they are a favorite around here too!

 

[FlyBirdiesFly]

Kermit is my only bird who will touch them!

 

[Oliver17]

Oliver will not have anything to do with them or carrots��