Cockatiels and parakeets are notorious dehuskers — they will crack a seed, eat the kernel and drop the husk straight back into the bowl, so a bowl that looks full can already be mostly empty shells. It's one reason a mix with a genuine variety of seed types, rather than one dominant grain, tends to hold a bird's interest for longer.

This is Bestpets' complementary mix for cockatiels and parakeets, built from yellow millet, sunflower seed, wheat, canary seed, red millet, safflower seed, oats, hempseed, linseed and buckwheat. The high sunflower seed content is the headline ingredient here, described as contributing energy, protein, fibre and oil across the mix as a whole.

• Complementary feed for cockatiels and parakeets
• Yellow millet, sunflower seed, wheat, canary seed, red millet, safflower seed, oats, hempseed, linseed and buckwheat
• High sunflower seed content for energy and oil
• Fresh food recommended daily, with water changed at least twice a day
• 20KG sack

On "complementary." This is described as a complementary feed rather than a complete one, so Bestpets are not claiming it meets every nutritional need on its own. No further guidance on what else to feed alongside it is given on the card, so treat it as the seed base of the diet rather than the whole of it.

Who it's for: cockatiel and parakeet owners buying in bulk who want a varied, sunflower-forward mix rather than a single-grain feed, and who are happy to top up the diet elsewhere as needed.