No Grow ‘Orange Feast’ 20kgThe Worlds First Orange Flavoured Wild Bird Food Mix Type: No Grow Orange Wild Bird SeedFlavor: OrangeIngredients: Pinhead Oatmeal, Flaked Barley, Flaked Wheat, Flaked Maize, Cut Corn, Sunflower Hearts, Peanut Granules, Berry Suet Pellets, Orange OilNo Grow Orange Feast Wild Bird Seed FormulationExpertly formulated to provide nourishment for your wild birds. No Grow Orange Feast Wild Bird Seed focuses on supplying your garden birds with the perfect balance of fats and natural oils they need to flourish. The high-energy component of the mix consists of Pinhead oatmeal, Flaked Barley, and Suet Pellets. This is for slow-release energy they can use throughout the day. Sunflower hearts and peanut granules provide high levels of beneficial natural fats and oils. This helps to keep their fat levels up. Flaked maize and cut corn increase the carbohydrate component of the mix for the quick-release energy. A no grow bird food blend carefully crafted using orange oil! Creating an amazing aroma around the bird feeders and tables, which we also believe can be beneficial to our wild birds’ diets.No Grow Orange Feast Wild Bird Food (In Depth)The oil used is cold pressed from the rind of fresh oranges. The process is very similar to the way extra virgin olive oil is produced. It’s not to be confused with ‘extracts’, Cold Pressed Orange Oil is 100% pure oil with no alcohol or water added.Oranges & their oil have long been touted as beneficial to humans immune systems, skin, wellbeing to name a few. It’s only more recently however that studies looking into the possible benefits that orange oil can have on birds, and most of these studies have shown highly promising and conclusive results in chickens and quails.The latest paper submitted was a highly extensive exercise concluding that cold pressed orange oil promoted the improvement of bone density, digestive tract (how much nutrition the birds got from their food) and weight gain. The study also concluded that there was no physiological impairment to the birds from being fed orange oil. You can read this study hereWe obviously found this very interesting, and although we cannot lay claim to whether the wild birds will be healthier from having orange oil added to their food, what we can say, is that studies have said it’s safe to do so. Much in the same way a lot of wild bird food mixes in the UK contain aniseed oil.
