Customer Reviews

Garden Song® 443-24 Instant Hummingbird Food, 8 Ounce Package

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You won't find a single expert on hummingbirds who recommends "instant nectar" products such as this one. Why? Because 1) they're a complete waste of your money and 2) they expose the birds to ridiculously high concentrations of inadequately tested chemicals. The cheapest and easiest feeder solution also happens to be the closest in chemical composition to natural flower nectar: a solution of 3 or 4 parts water to one part ordinary white sugar. If you want the sugar to dissolve faster, get additive-free superfine baking sugar. DON'T use honey, food coloring, Kool-Aid, Jello, or any other junk - the birds drink nectar just for the energy and get everything else their bodies need from eating insects.

As a field biologist involved in hummingbird studies in the SW, I can say that red--or any other color--dye is nonsense! NOT needed, quite likely harmful. Also, I question the instant nectar--instructions say it doesn't require boiling. Is there a preservative in it that retards yeast and bacterial growth? If so it would likely be extremely harmful to the gut of the hummers: it could harm their natural internal flora.

THIS PRODUCT DOES NOT STATE WHAT THEY USE FOR THE RED COLORING IN
THEIR NECTAR. IT IS A WELL KNOWN FACT THAT RED DYE #40 HAS PROVED
HARMFUL TO HUMMINGBIRDS CAUSING CANCER AND IS NOT NECESSARY.

NATURAL NECTAR IN THE WILD IS CLEAR WITHOUT COLOR. USING A COLORFUL
FEEDER WILL ATTRACT THE HUMMERS AND NOT HARM THEM.

For Hummingbirds: boil, on stove or microwave, 4 C water, 1 cup sugar.
Sugar water is all your hummers need. Do not waste your money on this product.

I had a ton of hummingbirds last year - I got this to go with the new window feeder I bought. I had a few birds show up but none stayed. I did not read the reviews when I bought this it was a buy the feeder + buy the food, so I did. Now I will read a review before I buy even Hummingbird food.

Product received as excepted. In an extremely fast manner; and in prefect condition. All this and still got it far cheaper than at local stores without having to leave my house.

We use this type of food and really enjoy wayching the hummingbirds come up and eat out of our window feeder. It's both relaxing and entertaining.