Elephants are great big animals but they like to stay healthy still so they have a diet of many healthy foods. Did you know that all types of elephants are herbivores? Elephants only eat plants and fruit no meat at all! They also spend most of their day eating and roaming for food. African elephants roam far distances daily to get food. All baby elephants when born and 3 years after drink milk from their mothers. Elephants eat up to three hundred or more pounds of food a day that's a lot of food right? Elephants diets consist of leaves, tree bark, seeds, and grass. Did you know that elephants don’t knock down trees to get leaves they only search the top for the green ones? Elephants eat for about twenty two hours a day only that leaves only two hours when they are not eating. That is all about the food elephants eat and how much they eat in a day.