Can guinea pigs eat cashews?

Let’s take a look and check out their nutritional data and find out more.

In particular, their acidic, water, sugar, fat, salt, calcium, and phosphorus content is of most interest as far as guinea pigs are concerned.

Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
Energy 553 kcal (2,310 kJ)
Carbohydrates
30.19 g
Starch 0.74 g
Sugars
lactose
5.91 g
0.00 g
Dietary fiber 3.3 g
Fat
43.85 g
Saturated 7.783 g
Monounsaturated 23.797 g
Polyunsaturated 7.845 g
Protein
18.22 g
Vitamins
Vitamin A 0 IU
Thiamine (B1) (37%) 0.423 mg
Riboflavin (B2) (5%) 0.058 mg
Niacin (B3) (7%) 1.062 mg
Pantothenic acid (B5) (17%) 0.86 mg
Vitamin B6 (32%) 0.417 mg
Folate (B9) (6%) 25 μg
Vitamin B12 (0%) 0 μg
Vitamin C (1%) 0.5 mg
Vitamin D (0%) 0 μg
Vitamin E (6%) 0.90 mg
Vitamin K (32%) 34.1 μg
Minerals
Calcium (4%) 37 mg
Copper (110%) 2.2 mg
Iron (51%) 6.68 mg
Magnesium (82%) 292 mg
Manganese (79%) 1.66 mg
Phosphorus (85%) 593 mg
Potassium (14%) 660 mg
Selenium (28%) 19.9 μg
Sodium (1%) 12 mg
Zinc (61%) 5.78 mg
Other constituents
Water 5.20 g

source wikipedia

As you can see cashew nuts contain quite a bit of water, a huge amount of phosphorus, fat and acidic content, and a little calcium.

This means that they can have one or two at the most, but there is too much acidic and fat content for them to handle.

For more foods that guinea pigs can and can’t eat, check out our guinea pig food list.