The Complete Parrot Feed Mix contains more than thirty ingredients across nine categories. That number is easy to print on a page and hard to verify in a jar, so this is the full list, category by category, with a note on what each group is doing in the mix.
Every ingredient here was chosen on quality, not on price per kilo — the nuts whole or halved rather than shattered, the fruit recognisable as fruit, the botanicals counted in rather than photographed onto the packaging.
It is a complementary feed, blended in Egypt, intended for medium and large parrots — conures through to macaws. Every ingredient except the NutriBird pellets is human-grade, Grade A.
Seeds
Canary seed, niger seed, striped sunflower, black sunflower, white sunflower, safflower, linseed (flaxseed), pumpkin seed.
Three sunflower types give different shell hardness and size, which matters for beaks that need work. Canary and niger are small and oil-rich; safflower is the lower-fat sunflower substitute many breeders prefer; linseed adds omega-3; pumpkin seed is included in additional quantity.
Grains
Buckwheat, summer maize, hulled oats, red corn, yellow corn, white corn.
Coloured corn is an Egyptian crop and gives the mix visual variety that parrots actually respond to. Buckwheat and hulled oats add texture without the sharp husk of whole oats.
Legumes
Lentils, red adzuki beans.
Plant protein and slow carbohydrate. Both are small enough for medium beaks and dense enough to matter nutritionally.
Nuts
Cashew, almond, hazelnut, walnut, plus pistachio in the current blend.
This is the most expensive section of the jar and the easiest to fake with broken pieces. Nuts supply fat, protein and a shell or half-shell that gives a macaw ten minutes of work. Pistachio is included in additional quantity and is rare in Egyptian mixes.
Dried fruit
Raisins, apricot, doum palm fruit (Hyphaene thebaica).
Doum is an Egyptian native fruit with a dark, molasses-like character. It is the ingredient no imported brand will copy, because the supply chain is here rather than there.
Coconut
Coconut strips, plus unsweetened coconut flakes.
Other plant ingredients
Radish, fenugreek, crushed carob pods, whole carob pods, tiger nuts (Cyperus esculentus).
Carob is the standout: whole pods give large birds a natural foraging item, and crushed pods spread sweetness through the mix without added sugar. Tiger nuts are a traditional Egyptian food, high in fibre and starch.
Herbs and spices
Black pepper, chilli pepper.
Both are pungent, and parrots — unlike mammals — do not perceive capsaicin as painful. Chilli is used deliberately, not decoratively.
Botanicals and flowers
Dried rose petals, dried hibiscus flowers, dried chamomile flowers, cinnamon.
Floral and aromatic enrichment. These are the ingredients buyers photograph.
Processed ingredients
Fruit biscuits blended with palm oil and coconut oil, and corn flakes.
Pellets
NutriBird P15 Tropical pellets are blended through the mix. They are the fortified component and the source of the added vitamins and minerals in the jar.
What the list does not tell you
An ingredient list is a starting point, not a nutritional analysis. It does not tell you the ratios, the fat percentage, the calcium-to-phosphorus balance or the batch microbiology. We publish what we can stand behind and we do not invent laboratory figures we have not commissioned.
What the list does tell you is how many food types are in one jar, and how far the sourcing standard goes. On those two measures — ingredient breadth and ingredient grade — this mix is hard to match in the Egyptian market.
How to use it
Offer it as the dry base of a varied diet, weigh the portion, keep vegetables in the bowl, and watch what your bird actually eats rather than what you serve. Full guidance is on the product page.
Not sure whether this is the right mix for your species? Read how to judge a complete parrot feed mix before you buy anything from anyone.
Related: enrichment-first formulation — why ingredient size and hardness matter.