Feeding Pepper 'Pith' (the white stuff?)

[madelineelaine]

I'm not sure what it's called exactly, but the white stuff on the inside of the pepper. Can I feed that to the pigs? I always scrap off seeds but up until now I haven't been feeding it just because I wouldn't eat it myself.

Also, a side note on seeds, does it matter if there's seeds in things like cucumbers? We grow them in the garden and the seeds are very large in these cucumbers, so I just pluck them out. But what about in things like raspberries?

[Kota12]

I'm not sure about the white stuff but Cucumbers you do not have to take out the seeds, and raspberries either.

[bpatters]

The pith in pepper is fine. And the seeds in cucumber are fine. It's the large dried seeds that crack into large pieces that you have to worry about. Guinea pigs have very narrow throat openings, and a big piece of a seed or a nut can choke them.

[madelineelaine]

okay The seeds are kind of large though. Like bigger then a sunflower seed.

[bpatters]

@madelineelaine , the cucumber seeds are soft and don't crack. That's the big difference, not the size.