can guinea pigs eat oatmeal

Can Guinea Pigs eat Oatmeal?

Oatmeal is made of hulled oat grains – groats – that have either been ground, steel-cut, or rolled. Ground oats are also called “white oats”.

Steel-cut oats are known as “coarse oatmeal” or “Irish oatmeal” or “pinhead oats”.

So can guinea pigs eat oatmeal?

Let’s take a look at their nutritional content and find out more.

In particular, we are interested in their acidic, water, sugar, fat, salt, calcium, and phosphorus content as far as guinea pigs are concerned.

Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
Energy 1,628 kJ (389 kcal)
Carbohydrates
66.3 g
Dietary fiber 10.6 g
Fat
6.9 g
Protein
16.9 g
Vitamins
Thiamine (B1) (66%) 0.763 mg
Riboflavin (B2) (12%) 0.139 mg
Niacin (B3) (6%) 0.961 mg
Pantothenic acid (B5) (27%) 1.349 mg
Vitamin B6 (9%) 0.12 mg
Folate (B9) (14%) 56 μg
Minerals
Calcium (5%) 54 mg
Iron (38%) 5 mg
Magnesium (50%) 177 mg
Manganese (233%) 4.9 mg
Phosphorus (75%) 523 mg
Potassium (9%) 429 mg
Sodium (0%) 2 mg
Zinc (42%) 4 mg
Other constituents
β-glucan (soluble fibre) 4 g

source wikipedia

As you can see, oatmeal contains a huge amount of phosphorus, acidic content, quite a bit of fat, and a hint of salt.

This means that they can eat a little dry oatmeal, but don’t feed them too much as it contains too much acidic content and phosphorus for them to handle.

Too much oatmeal may give them stomach problems.

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

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