In nature, 99% of the food for giant pandas is bamboo. What do captive giant pandas mainly eat?
1. The staple food for captive giant pandas is a coarse fiber feed composed of sufficient and high-quality fresh bamboo and some bamboo powder and pod powder. These coarse fibers are the key to ensuring the health of giant pandas.
2. Next is refined feed, which is supplied in the form of compound feed, usually corn and rice, soybeans, eggs, milk powder, etc. These foods contain high energy and rich protein, are easy to digest, and have a good effect on the growth of captive giant pandas.
3. Captivated pandas also eat fruits and vegetables, usually carrots or apples. These foods have great taste and taste, and are also very popular foods for giant pandas, which can fully supplement vitamins.
4. In addition to the aforementioned foods, giant pandas also need to supplement with minerals, so keepers will add some salt, as well as calcium carbonate, calcium gluconate, and other substances to their food. These substances can not only maintain the physiological balance of giant pandas, meet their growth, development, and metabolic needs, but also improve the taste of the food, making them eat more fragrant. In addition, some sucrose, edible oil, vitamins, fish liver oil, and other trace elements will also be moderately added to make the food delicious, while enriching the nutritional content of the food to meet the growth needs of giant pandas.
In summary, captive giant pandas have abundant food, including bamboo, coarse fiber feed, refined feed, fruits and vegetables, minerals, salt, sucrose, oil, vitamins and other trace elements. Therefore, captive giant pandas have higher requirements for food.