Selenium is a part of several enzymes necessary for the body to properly function. It protects the immune system from damage

Generally, selenium functions as an antioxidant that works in conjunction with vitamin E.

Fruits:

Bananas Kiwi Strawberry Blackberries Tomatoes

Orange Peach Apples Grapes

Vegetables:

Lima Beans Peas Kale Corn Sweet potato

Squash - winter Spinach

Most nuts contain selenium, but the following nuts have a significant amount:

Brazil Nuts Sunflower Seeds Cashews Pistachios

Peanuts Walnuts Almonds Chestnuts Pecans

HERBS:

Alfalfa, burdock root, catnip, cayenne, chamomile, chickweed, fennel seed, ginseng, garlic, hawthorn berry, hops, horsetail, lemongrass, milk thistle, nettle, oat straw, parsley, peppermint, raspberry leaf, rose hips, sarsaparilla, uva ursi, yarrow, yellow dock.

After reading all of these posts I am feeling the need to gind up some nuts and add them to the Budgie mix.

 

Thanks for posting

All / most of these vits and minerals are found in everyday life especailly in Mulit vitiamins and etc

 

But as I am so health conscious I wanted to do research on alot of different and alternative methods:

 

And thought I'd share with everyone here - But as with all foods cross reference it with the safe / Toxic food lists

and with nuts UNSALTED!!!!!!!!!!

 

But Nuts are full of goodness that gets over looked as they are nuts and not seeds - This has all been checked and double check with my avian vet - as per my other posts Some will take to nuts some don't and the way you feed it is important to

All / most of these vits and minerals are found in everyday life especailly in Mulit vitiamins and etc

 

But as I am so health conscious I wanted to do research on alot of different and alternative methods:

 

And thought I'd share with everyone here - But as with all foods cross reference it with the safe / Toxic food lists

and with nuts UNSALTED!!!!!!!!!!

 

But Nuts are full of goodness that gets over looked as they are nuts and not seeds - This has all been checked and double check with my avian vet - as per my other posts Some will take to nuts some don't and the way you feed it is important to

 

I have a half gal jug of cashews, but they are salted can I rinse them of the salt and give them or does that not take enough salt off them???

You would have to redry them or you could give them mush? I would personally go and get unsalted there is so much salt in nuts that I think it is pretty hard to get it all out.

If you decide to wash them, pop them in a low oven for a little while to make sure they are dry so they don't go mouldy

A little known fact from my experience with glass in the leadlight industry. Selenium is in the recipe to make the hot colours of glass..... reds, oranges and yellows. The selenium colours are more expensive than most others.

And todays random fact is brought to you by the letter K for Kaz

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Yeah I agree with getting new one - to be on the safe side