Can guinea pigs eat cantaloupe?

The humans decided to give us a new food to review: cantaloupe! We give it 4/5 stars. While delicious, it took a while for us to recognize it as food so we weren't immediately interested. When we were only a few weeks old we only ate hay. Gradually, our owners decided to introduce fresh fruits and vegetables. At first we ignored it since we didn't know if it was safe to eat or not. Lola was brave enough to try the carrots in our bowl and after that, Buffy followed suit.

We have to be careful with new foods, since we can't eat just anything. Once our owners put chives in our food bowl. Chives! Yuck. We screamed and screamed to let them know that chives were most definitely not okay for guinea pigs to eat. FYI, we can't eat onions or potatoes either. They not only taste terrible to us, but they can cause serious harm to our digestive tract. Just because chives are green does not mean we like them!

Anyway, back to the story of the delicious melon we tried today. Our owner held out a slice for us to sniff. At first we were nervous, but then we sniffed it and it seemed tasty:

What's this? Can we eat it?

Hmmm. Intriguing. Lola took a bite first, and Buffy tried to bite a piece. We enjoyed nibbling on the melon:

Lola steals the melon.

But then Lola got greedy and tried to run off with the slice of melon for herself! I, Buffy, am usually so passive, but I was not about to let Lola steal it from me so I snatched it back:

Note the angry look in my eye. My melon.

Within minutes the melon was gone. Afterwards, we ran around the room and wheeked happily. We hope the humans will give us more soon!