Tortoise
Diet
Your Healthy Tortoise Diet Guide
Below is a small selection of the types of fresh food your tortoise can eat and things it must avoid.
It is very important to vary your tortoises diet as much as possible with plants, fruit and vegetables and our Komodo complete pellet food.
It is essential to add a multi-vitamin and calcium supplement to any fresh foods you give your tortoise.
Hermann, Dwarf Hermann, Horsefield, Spur-thighed, Marginated, Sulcata and Leopard Tortoises are herbivores and feed mainly on plants and leaves. Fruit should only be fed as a treat, not everyday.
Red-footed Tortoises are omnivores and eat a wider range of food than other species of tortoise. In addition to the lists below they can occasionally eat animal protein such as mice, rats, and chicks.
Plants |
Vegetable |
Fruits |
| Dandelion Clover Chickweed Plantain Heather Sow thistle Hawk bits Bindweed Rose petals Forget-me-not Fuchsia Antirrhinum Hibiscus Aubrietia Nasturtium Pansies Petunia Geranium Bittercress Black medic Blue sowthistle Bristly oxtongue Broadleaf filaree Wild chicory Creeping thistle Dead nettle Field madder Globe thistle Goats beard Ground elder Hawks beard Hedge woundwort Kidney weed Knapweed Mallow Oilseed rape Scotch thistle leaves Sea holly Teazle Violet Bergamot Bromeliad Dahlia Evening primrose Hollyhock |
Cabbage Spring green Carrot Cauliflower Spinach Brussel sprout Cucumber Kale Cress Watercress Parsnip Fennel Rocket Chard Courgette Endive Frisee lettuce Marrow Pak choi Pumpkin Radicchio Lollo rosso lettuce Romaine lettuce Lambs lettuce |
Apple Pear Tomato Grape Strawberry Melon Plum Peach Blackberry Apricot Gooseberry Raspberry |
Plants that are poisonous to your tortoise:
Lupins, Daffodils, Hydrangea, Lily of the valley, Foxglove, Mistletoe, Rhododendron, Narcissus, Rhubarb, Hellebores, Crocus, Bleeding heart, Ragwort, Azalea, Vinca, Hypericum, Peony, Lobelia, Aconite, Tobacco plant & Euphorbia’s. Aubergine, Avocado, Chilli Peppers,