Nuts and Seeds are a healthy part of the perfect gutload

I wish to promote Nuts and Seeds as a healthy addition to vegetables and fruit for the perfect gutload. Nuts and seeds provide healthy unsaturated fats, protein, selenium and other minerals, Vitamin E, B vitamins and more. Some even have a favourable calcium to phosphorous ratio.
I like sesame seeds (in small amounts) as they are high in calcium and also provide Iron, Magnesium, Potassium, Copper, Manganese and B Vitamins. Poppy seeds also have a high calcium content (again, in small amounts). Although higher in phosphorous than calcium, I also offer some Sunflower seeds (excellent source of Vitamin E) and a few Walnuts (Omega-3 and a number of essential vitamins and minerals, including the B vitamins, vitamin E, copper, maganese, iron and zinc) and also almonds in moderation. The occasional brazil nut is useful due to the very high selenium content. I encourage you to add a few ground seeds and raw nuts to your feeder gutload from time to time, to the benefit of your chameleon. Note: be aware that nuts can be high protein and know that they can go rancid, especially once ground.


Seasame Seeds: http://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/499-sesame-seeds-good-choice.html
Sunflower seeds: http://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/145-nutrients-sunflower-seeds.html
Poppy Seeds: http://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/502-nutrients-poppy-seeds-papaver-somniferum.html
Squash / pumpkin seeds: http://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/500-nutrients-squash-seeds.html
Walnuts: http://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/495-walnuts.html
Filberts: http://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/501-filberts-hazelnuts.html
Millet: http://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/494-nutrients-millet-panicum-miliaceum.html
Brazil nut: http://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/493-brazil-nuts.html
Almonds: http://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/492-nutrients-almonds.html
Beechnuts: http://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/491-beechnuts.html
Fennel seed http://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/689-fennel.html
Flax seed http://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/509-flax-seed-linum-usitatissimum.html


More information regarding gutloading:
http://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/75-feeder-nutrition-gutloading.html
http://www.chameleonnews.com/05JunDescamps.html

This blog entry was repeated as a forum thread: http://www.chameleonforums.com/nuts-seeds-65593/