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Culantro question

PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:27 pm
by xsavingsaturdayx
I posted a topic a while back asking if it was safe to feed to my turtle's, the answer was yes..But I was wondering if instead of lettuce I could add this more often to my turtle's diet. It's cheaper, I just bought some for 89 cent's, while lettuce cost's about 2$ and doesnt last as long as the culantro does.

PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:56 pm
by DavidY
It's really hard to find any nutritional information on culantro, but there's plenty on cilantro. I did find somewhere that said culantro is a good source of calcium, iron, carotene and riboflavin, but I don't know if there is any potential negative factors.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:02 am
by xsavingsaturdayx
I posted this link on my last topic on culantro, http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proc ... 4-506.html

It say's the leave's are a perfect source of vitamin A, it's good in alot of way's, even to us human's..I just dont want to keep feeding this to them until I know for sure that it wont do any harm, I've looked at several different turtle site's and none of them say anything about culantro or cilantro.. :?

PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:14 am
by industrial_girl_2000
I'm surprised the fresh cilantro is cheaper than lettuce!!!! Wow.