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Hamsters can eat a wide variety of foods, from fruits and vegetables to seeds and rusks. This list aims to give you some ideas that can spice up your hamster’s diet, as well as providing a safe food list.
Hamsters love lots of different foods
In general, if you’re not sure whether or not your hamster should eat this specific food, then we don’t advise that you risk it. Hamsters have very different digestive systems to our own, and there are many foods that we can eat happily that hamsters cannot.
- Apple slices (without seeds)
- Banana
- Broccoli
- Carrot
- A Cherry (pitted)
- Chicory
- Clover
- Dandelion
- Egg (small piece of boiled and scrambled)
- Hamster dry foods
- Hamster treats
- Hay
- Lettuce (very small amounts only)
- Pear
- Peas
- Sprouts
- Sweetcorn
- Watercress
Some foods to avoid (non-exhaustive):
- Aubergine
- Acorns
- Buttercups
- Bluebells
- Bindweed
- Citrus fruits
- Elder
- Garlic
- Leeks
- Privet
- Rhubarb
- Onions
- Un-ripe fresh food
- Over-ripe fresh food
- ‘Human Food’ (as covered in our ‘Can My Hamster Eat’... pages)
It’s best to try tiny slivers of safe foods with your pet in case they develop diarrhoea. When you’re sure a food is fine, offer your pets a pea or bean sized amount.
Comments
Jeffrey, 3 April 2023
Does the small portion about also apply to the dandelions and clovers, and if so then do you know how to measure the portions? Also can you feed them grapes?
Saab, 25 September 2021
I had my dwarf hamster over 2 months and he won't drink water has only had water in the 2 months what can I do
An Omleteer, 2 May 2020
Awesome thank you
Charlotte, 24 August 2019
The food list is perfect so I know what not to feed my hamster Lola, and what is good to feed Lola. I will write a list of everything she can eat and everything she can't eat thank you~ Charlotte F
Richard, 7 August 2019
Can dwarf hampsters eat radishes?