I checked my Mazuri ingredients. It indeed also has yeast and cintric acid. But it doesn't have juniper and China cassia bark. I also checked Juniper in tortoise table and it is indeed toxic to tortoise.Well I actually own this food in a slightly bigger quantity. I even asked if it was ok for my tort too. At least I think it's the same stuff. They said it's great stuff it just might take a bit of time for your tort to get used to it.
if I am wrong, please correct me.
I posted a pic of the ingredients below and the label.
Now that I am reading the ingredients closer, it does say it has garlic extract, and all the other you listed.
I actually don't know, I'll let the experts take this one.
Sorry the pics are blurry, could not get my camera to focus correctly. Hope you can read them. View attachment 314284View attachment 314283
Since both Mazuri and zoo med have yeast and cintrinc acid, I guess they are something required or byproduct to make the pellets? Not sure. For China cassia bark, Garlic and Juniper, I don't know. They are obviously some plant extracts and should be easily removed from the food. I think zoo med is a big company about reptile stuff. It should have its own scientists and they may have a different understanding of those things.Why on earth would they put something toxic for tortoises in a tortoise food?
That makes no sense.....
Maybe I will just feed less often also.
@Tom ?
For what it's worth, juniper leaves are a natural food of Kinosternon baurii, the three-striped mud turtle, in Florida. Natural, as in they eat it all on their own in nature, with nobody feeding it to them.I checked my Mazuri ingredients. It indeed also has yeast and cintric acid. But it doesn't have juniper and China cassia bark. I also checked Juniper in tortoise table and it is indeed toxic to tortoise.