Subject: Water Hyacynths as food?

From: [email-masked]
Date: 11 Sep 1996 07:02:11 GMT

Looking for nutritional info on water hyacynths.  My water turtles eat them.  I was wanting to feed the excess ones to my iguanas, 
but would like to know what's in them first.  Any help would be appreciated.

James

Conservation through captive propagation.

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From: [email-masked] (m.lee)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 03:17:25 GMT

[email-masked] wrote:
: Looking for nutritional info on water hyacynths.  My water turtles eat them.  I was wanting to feed the excess ones to my iguanas, 
: but would like to know what's in them first.  Any help would be appreciated.

: James

: Conservation through captive propagation.

It's a heavy metal accumulator - here in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta 
they pick up some stuff that prevented us from composting them way back 
when.  Used in sewage treatment.  Used to make paper in India.

ml