Feed Your Iguana

What to feed them.  Here’s a good variety: 

Greens:  At least 40 percent of their diet should be made up of foods like turnip greens, collards, dandelion, water cress, and escarole.

Vegetables:  Another 40 percent of their diets should provide vegetables like green beans, mushrooms, bell peppers, squashes, peas, parsnips, okra, alfalfa, sweet potatoes and carrots.

Fruits: Keep this to less than ten percent of their diets and it can include foods like raspberries, mango, fig, apples, bananas, papaya, or melons.

Protein supplements:  Don’t give more than five percent of this but it can come from alfalfa pellets or other commercial brands.

Grains:  Less than five percent of their food can come from grains such as cooked rice and pasta, whole wheat breads of others. 

There are other foods that should never be given to your iguana.  Those include any type of insect or animal protein, any type of dairy product, no eggs, no type of other animal pet foods, no rhubarb.  Some foods can be given but only sparingly such as foods that contain citrus, lettuce leaves, or tofu.