Can Hamsters Eat Kidney Beans (Red Beans)? This post contains observation video of hamster eating kidney beans. It is recommended not to take a risk of your hamsters health. Please AVOID this kind of unsafe foods to your hamsters.
hamster eating kidney beans (red beans)
This funny hamster curious with kidney beans. I advise you not to feed your hamsters with unsafe foods like kidney beans, cooked or uncooked. Kidney beans contain Phytohaemagglutinin: this is a lectin found in plants. Lectin's are proteins capable of damaging the intestinal mucosa, and is found in the highest concentrations in uncooked red kidney beans. Only cooking (boiled for at least ten minutes) will reduce or destroy most of the poison in the bean.1
Actually the little curious hamster in this observation video just wanna know what is red kidney beans flavor. After a few bites, the hamster collects the first kidney beans. Then back to drink and eat a little of Polyscias scutellaria2 leave. Later he collects another kidney beans to the food storage.
Video of Hamster Eat Kidney Beans (Red Beans)
Hamsters are omnivores. Hamsters diet consisting of variety of food sources that may include healthy fruit, vegetable and plants. They try all sorts of food, or even non food thingy cause they are always curious. But does that mean we should let them eat whatever they can.
References:
[1] Kidney Beans and Hamster, Hammys World.
[2] Wikipedia contributors. Polyscias scutellaria. Wikipedia.
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