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Did you know elephants are big eaters. Elephants spend eighty to ninety percent of the time eating. An elephant diet is tree leaves, twigs, flowers, wild fruit, bushes, bamboo, and bananas and the main food it eats is GRASS. If an elephants lives in a zoo it eats cabbage, lettuce, sugar cane, apples, and bananas. African elephants can travel great distances without food or water. Also elephants are herbivores that means they eat a lot of plants. African elephants migrate seven thousands five hundred square miles each year. Elephants spend twenty two hour searching on top of trees for leaves. These are some facts on elephants diet.