Healthy eating starts with learning new ways to eat, such as adding more fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grains and cutting back on foods that have a lot of fat, salt, and sugar. A change to healthier eating also includes learning about balance, variety, and moderation.
All turtles need fruits and vegetables for proper growth. Good vegetables for most water turtles include kale, dandelion greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, collards and carrots. Most turtle species need significantly more vegetables than fruit or meat as adults.Give fruit in smaller quantities, every other day or so.Too much fruit can cause digestive problems.Good fruits include bananas, tomatoes, raspberries and blueberries.ood vegetables for most water turtles include kale, dandelion greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, collards and carrots.
A wide variety of fruits and vegetables should be offered to your box turtle daily in order to provide a balanced diet. 1  Items should be clean and pesticide free and some people strongly recommend feeding only organic items. 2  Typically they are only recommended as a supplement to a variety of fresh foods.