Cilantro

[Littleleno]

Up until now, I've been feeding a variety of celery, bok choy (however that's spelled) carrots, strawberries occasionally, squashes etc. I had surgery yesterday so my husband is caring for spike. He chopped up some cilantro and spike devoured it! Normally she doesn't touch her veggies. Is cilantro very nutritious to where I can add it in more often?

 

[CooperDragon]

Cilantro is OK when mixed in as a portion of a salad sometimes. Your best bet is to mix a few items in each salad using a base of collard, turnip, mustard, or dandelion greens combined with something like squash or green beans and maybe a fruit or another vegetable. It depends on what you can get fresh. I use this list to reference when I put together salads. Remember that variety is good so include at least a couple of different items with each salad to provide balance. http://www.beautifuldragons.com/Nutrition.html

 

[anwyn]

Mort really likes basil and mint leaves too. I put in little pieces and she eats it right up - along with the good collard greens it's stuck to. From the charts I've seen it doesn't have nutritional value but I put it in for a variety of flavours for her. (Mort is fussy and won't eat any fruit or anything not green and leaf shaped.)

 

[cbbrown]

My uromastyx and bearded dragon love cilantro mixed with collared greens and snow peas.

 

[CooperDragon]

I used to mix into the salad a little mint from the garden on occasion without a problem. Wasn't a huge hit really but helped with stinky dragon breath ;-)