Pomengranate seeds?

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You mean as they eat a pomegranate?
I've never removed seeds from anything. But feeding them pomegranates is pretty rare.
I'd leave them in.
I generally feed any of the many fruits that I can get here locally. Pomegranate is not one of those.
 

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The pomengranate seeds... the arils... you remove them from the fruit by hitting the pomengranate shell with a spoon and they drop out... the seeds/arils... are they OK for a red foot to eat? I can't find any info on that one way or the other... we eat a lot of them in smoothies as they are a total superfood and we buy them in frozen form to keep in the freezer until ready to use
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As long as the tortoise's throat is big enough to swallow them without choking, then yes, you can allow them to eat the seeds. RF and YF tortoises eat quite a few seeds in the wild, and if we don't provide seeds for them, they resort to eating pebbles.
 
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