Is frozen food safe?

[Sue_P]

I’ve found that there’s some confusion over whether frozen vegetables are safe for guinea pigs to eat. I was told once on another forum never to feed them any frozen food but yet it seems some people do feed them the odd bit. Does anyone here know for sure whether it’s fine to feed or not, and if not the reason why? Frozen corn cobs are often cheaper than fresh but I’ve never bought my guinea pigs any ever due to thinking they were dangerous and off-limits.

 

[Wiebke]

Bacteria will multiply extremely quickly in defrosted veg, so it is NOT a good idea to feed it. you are doing well in not giving it to your piggies!

 

[CiaraPatricia]

And frozen veg probably won't be as yummy for them anyway, I imagine they're turn their noses up at it!

 

[Claire W]

I would never feed my girls frozen veg. Fresh is always better in my opinion

 

[Baby's Mom]

My 3 guineas always get fresh veggies.

The fresh veggies have way more vitamins and nutrients than frozen.

 

[skrikopanik]

Mine also seem to favour crisp and crunchy stuff. Frozen veggies go soggy when they are defrosted...

 

[Sue_P]

So there’s nothing actually dangerous with it then?

Just take it away if they don’t eat it straight away yep?

I might give it a go sometime, doubt my roddies would be able to tell the amount of nutrients in it anyway.

 

[skrikopanik]

no, I don't think it could actually be dangerous as long as you remove anyhting that's not eaten straight away. As for the nutrients frozen is not always worse than fresh because they are frozen right after harvest whereas "fresh" can have travelled for quite some time (at least to my arctic country...). One thing freezing does though is to destroy the structure of the cells (which is why frozen veggies go limp). I don't know if it alters the fiber content.

 

[Sue_P]

Cheers.

I guess I'll just have to try them to see if frozen corn cobs are soft and mushy upon defrosting and if my roddies stick their noses up at them.