Moldy fruit

[Pajarita]

I am posting this article because there is a lot of misinformation on the net about how long fresh food can be out for the birds. People take things to the extreme when they claim (without ANY scientific evidence, mind you) that they can only have their fresh food out for 2 hours. For one thing, nothing rots in two hour, for another, birds eat over-ripe fruit ALL THE TIME in the wild and, last but not least, even a bit of mold on it is not dangerous at all. As the article states, apart from micotoxins (which grow on cereals, dried fruits, nuts, spices, grains and seeds), there is little danger of consuming it.

Mind you. I am NOT saying that you should feed your birds moldy anything! All I am saying is that a bit soft, a bit bruised, a bit over-ripe is nothing to them.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrit ... ar-BBZYBlf

[liz]

Ask yourself the question "would I eat it?".

[Pajarita]

I don't think that is a fair question because birds are not people, Liz. Birds actually LIKE over-ripe fruit as well as very green fruit, two things I do not eat. Look at the Australian birds that eat rotten fruit from the ground and get drunk on it! I give them fruit that is too soft for me all the time. I don't give them moldy or rotten fruit, of course, but I do give them fruit that is bruised (I just cut off that part and use the rest).

But, in any case, the point of the article was that you do NOT need to remove produce or even gloop after two hours, as most people claim it should be done.