The full recipe book + three years of meals, already calculated for your sugar glider family.

Why we rotate recipes every day (not in 10-day blocks)

Sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps) in the wild eat eucalyptus sap, acacia gum, pollen, nectar, manna and arthropods — an intake that varies day by day with season and plant they forage on ^[1,2]. Captive diets should respect the same daily-variety logic, because rotation preserves the gut microbiota signature typical of xylophagous/exudivorous animals adapted to variable inputs ^[3]. Feeding the same recipe for 10 days straight, then switching, is a distortion driven only by prep/freezing convenience: APPETAURI solves the problem by separating the two — you prep every 40 days, but thaw with daily rotation.

Ca:P 2:1 is the line between health and MBD

Metabolic bone disease (MBD / secondary nutritional hyperparathyroidism) is the leading cause of hindlimb paresis and spontaneous fractures in pet sugar gliders ^[4]. It's driven by two common errors: (1) inverted Ca:P from insect-heavy diets — mealworms and crickets start at roughly 1:8 against calcium unless gut-loaded before feeding ^[5,6]; (2) protein excess, since sugar gliders have the lowest documented nitrogen maintenance requirement of any marsupial ^[7]. The literature target is roughly 1% Ca, 0.5% P, 1,500 IU/kg vitamin D3 on dry basis ^[8,9,10]. You can only hit this balance with formulated supplements (Wombaroo HPS, HPW, TPG, BML), not improvised fruit and insects.

The absolute no-go list

Some foods are dangerous not because of quantity but because of mechanism:

• Chocolate — theobromine, neurotoxic
• Onion, garlic, leek, chives — thiosulphates that damage red blood cells (Heinz anaemia)
• Avocado (skin and pit) — persin
• Raw milk and dairy — lactose intolerance
• Cured meats and raw aged meat
• Fruit seeds and pits (apple, cherry, apricot, peach) — cyanogenic glycosides
• Unwashed pesticide-treated fruit and vegetables

Sources: Merck Veterinary Manual ^[8], LafeberVet ^[9].

There isn't one "sugar glider": there are three

A 2021 taxonomic revision split what was thought to be Petaurus breviceps into three distinct species: P. breviceps, P. notatus and P. ariel ^[11]. Furthermore the pet stock bred in the USA (and thus most of what circulates in Europe through descent) genetically derives from Western Papuan populations, not from the South-Eastern Australian populations where the classic wild-diet studies were done ^[12]. APPETAURI states this explicitly: quantities are calibrated for the common pet species but not presented as "universal" for wild Australian gliders.

Out-of-pouch joeys: the critical window

Marsupial maternal milk shifts through three distinct phases: the late phase has more than double the lipids of the early phase ^[13]. The only validated replacement formulas are Wombaroo Impact + Sugar Glider Milk Replacer ^[14]. Paediatric MBD shows up as hindlimb paresis between weeks 8 and 14 out of the pouch, typically when the mother herself is calcium-deficient during lactation ^[15]. For breeders, knowing this means intervening before fractures.

Honest about the product's limits

APPETAURI is a meal plan based on Marie Bannister's SGS2 cookbook and the currently most-cited vet guidelines. It doesn't replace a veterinary visit, doesn't address specific clinical cases (problem pregnancies, struggling-weaning joeys, established MBD), and doesn't guarantee outcomes for those who don't respect quantities or introduce foods outside the list. UVB/D3 calibration for pet sugar gliders in indoor environments is still an open area ^[16]: if your home is particularly dark or you're unsure about supplementation, talk to an exotic vet.