Tears Of The Kingdom: 5 Best Food Items

Tears of the Kingdom has admirable dynamics regarding the food and cooking aspect. According to my experience in the game, here are the five best foods.

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Key Takeaways

• Food items are essential as they carry an effect of their own or can be used in cooking a variety of beneficial recipes.
• Although the majority of food has a common effect of recovering health, some provide extra benefits. Explicitly, players can consume an Ironshroom to increase their defense along with health recovery.
• The most common food items are:
  • Hyrule Herb
  • Meat 
• Relatively easier to find are:
  • Apple
  • Bird Eggs
  • Mushrooms

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Apple

• Apples are commonly found on the surface level of the world in Tears of the Kingdom. You can also find apples out in the wild hanging on the trees. Simply hit the trees, and apples will start falling on the ground.
• Players can either consume the apple to recover 0.5 heart or use it in cooking beneficial recipes.
• Furthermore, there is a chance to encounter a Golden Apple while gathering the regular ones. These are rare types of ingredients that hold better characteristics than a regular apple. Consuming a golden apple will eventually recover 1.5 hearts.

For a detailed guide on where to get a Golden Apple, watch the FP Good Game YouTube channel.

I have used apples in the following recipes:

Recipe	Food Ingredients
Apple Pie	Apple, Cane Sugar, Goat Butter, Tabantha Wheat
Baked Apple	Apple
Copious Simmered Fruit	Any Fruit (Apple) (4)
Fruit and Mushroom Mix	Any Fruit (Apple), Any Mushroom
Fruit Cake	Any Fruit (Apple) (3), Cane Sugar, Tabantha Wheat
Honeyed Apple	Apple, Courser Bee Honey
Hot Buttered Apple	Apple, Goat Butter
Meat Skewer	Any Fruit (Apple), Any Meat
Simmered Fruit	Any Fruit (Apple) (3)
Steamed Fruit	Any Fruit (Apple), Vegetable/Flower/Herb

Mushrooms

• I think mushrooms and their variants are the easiest to spot in the game.
• Variants of mushrooms will grow in specific regions. Following this, each mushroom will carry its unique benefit upon consumption if it is cooked.
• I don’t recommend consuming them as they restore only a negligible amount of health.

Mushrooms	Raw Effect	Cooked Effect
Chillshroom	Restore 0.5 heart	Increases heat resistance
Hylian Shroom	Restore 0.5 heart	_
Ironshroom	Restore 0.5 heart	Increases defense
Puffshroom	Blinds enemy with smoke	_
Razorshroom	Restore 0.5 heart	Increases attack
Mushroom	Restore 0.5 heart	Increases speed
Silent Shroom	Restore 0.5 heart	Increases stealth
Skyshroom	Restore one heart	_
Stamella Shroom	Restore one heart	Restores stamina
Sunroom	Restore 0.5 heart	Increases cold resistance
Zapshroom	Restore 0.5 heart	Increases shock resistance

Here are my favorite recipes, including mushrooms:

Recipe	Food Ingredients
Copious Mushroom Skewer	Different Mushroom (4)
Cream of Mushroom Soup	Mushroom, Vegetable/Herb/Flower
Fish and Mushroom Skewer	Fish, Mushroom
Fragrant Mushroom Saute’	Mushroom, Goron Spice
Fruit and Mushroom Mix	Fruit, Mushroom
Glazed Mushroom	Mushroom, Courser Bee Honey
Meat and Mushroom Skewer	Meat, Mushroom
Mushroom Omelet	Bird Egg, Goat Butter, Mushroom, Rock salt
Mushroom Rice balls	Mushroom, Hylian Rice
Mushroom Risotto	Goat Butter, Hylian Rice, Mushroom, Rock salt
Mushroom Skewer	Mushroom
Salt-Grilled Mushroom	Mushroom, Rock salt
Steamed Mushroom	Mushroom, Vegetable/Herb/Flower

Bird Egg

• Along with various other collectibles, a bird egg is also one to find easily while roaming. While exploring the wilderness, players can obtain bird eggs from the top of the trees. However, not every tree will be carrying the egg; those that have it will display a sparkling effect. 
• As for its effects, bird eggs only have a raw effect as a consumable. It restores one heart upon consumption. On the contrary, it has no cooked effects. Rather, it is best to use it in recipes for a better potential of this food item.

Bird Egg is mostly applicable in complex recipes. Such kinds of recipes deliver much better use of themselves. 

Recipe	Food Ingredients
Cheesy Omelette	Mushroom/Plant, Hateno Cheese, Bird Egg, Rock salt
Crab Omelet with Rice	Bird Egg (1), Crab, Hylian Rice, Rock salt
Crunchy Fried Rice	Bird egg, Hylian Rice, Oil Jar, Meat
Curry Pilaf	Bird Egg, Goat Butter, Goron Spice, Hylian Rice
Egg Pudding	Bird Egg, Cane Sugar, Fresh Milk
Egg Tart	Bird Egg, Cane sugar, Goat Butter, Tabantha Wheat
Energizing Honey Crepe	Bird egg, Cane sugar, Courser bee honey, Fresh milk, Tabantha wheat
Fried Egg and Rice	Bird egg, Hylian rice
Gourmet Poultry Pilaf	Bird egg, Goat butter, Hylian rice, Raw whole bird
Mushroom Omelet	Bird egg, Goat butter, Mushroom, Rock salt
Plain Crepe	Bird egg, Cane sugar, Fresh milk, Goat butter, Tabantha wheat
Poultry Pilaf	Bird egg, Goat butter, Hylian rice, Raw bird drumstick
Prime Poultry Pilaf	Bird egg, Goat butter, Hylian rice, Raw bird thigh
Vegetable Omelet	Bird egg, Goat butter, Rock salt, Vegetable
Wildberry Crepe	Bird egg, Cane sugar, Fresh milk, Tabantha wheat, Wildberry

Meat

• This food ingredient is quite valuable and is easy to obtain while venturing into the wild. This is because to collect meat, players will simply have to hunt the animals out in the open.
• Although an option to purchase meat from Travelling Merchants is also available, it is best to put yourself in some adventuring position and hunt animals for it. 
• Raw Meat has different variants in the game, each having its unique food recipe. Explicitly, Woodland Boars, Mountain Goats, and grassland foxes are the best sources of Raw Meat. Hunting down birds also drop raw meat (e.g., Raw whole bird, raw bird thigh).
• As for Raw Gourmet Meat and Raw Prime Meat, players can commonly find both food ingredients by hunting the same animals. Namely, a few of them are Snowcoat Foxes, Water Buffalo, Maraudo Wolves, Grizzlemaw Bears, etc.
• Meat helps to recover one’s heart upon consumption. 

Meat is admirably the handiest ingredient in cooking a variety of supportive recipes:

Recipe	Food Ingredients
Copocious Meat Skewer	Different Meat (4)
Meat Stew	Raw Meat, Raw bird drumstick, Tabantha wheat, Goat butter, Fresh milk
Steamed Meat	Hyrule herb, Any Meat
Gourmet Spiced Meat Skewer	Raw Gourmet mat, Goron spice
Gourmet Meat and Seafood Fry	Raw Gourmet meat, Any Fish
Prime Meat Curry	Goron spice, Hylian herb, Raw prime meat
Prime Meat Stew	Raw prime meat, Tabantha wheat, Goat butter, Fresh milk
Deep-fried Drumstick	Raw bird drumstick, Oil jar
Deep-fried Bird Roast	Raw whole bird, Oil jar

Hyrule Herb

• Hyrule herbs are spread wide across Hyrule Field and Ridge. A Hyrule herb restores one heart and is useful in various food recipes.

Here are my favorite recipes for Hyrule herbs to help you deal with health issues:

Recipe	Food Ingredients
Fried Wild Greens	Hyrule Herb
Herb Saute	Goron spice, Hyrule herb
Steamed Meat	Any meat, Hyrule herb
Vegetable Risotto	Goat butter, Hylian rice, Hyrule herb, Rock salt
Veggie Rice Balls	Hylian rice, Hyrule herb

Final Remarks

Food items can help a little regarding shaping the combat strategy, such as taking initiates or playing defensively or offensively. Therefore, I highly recommend keeping a handful of food items that can help you in your adventure. The food mentioned above items are my favorite simply because of its versatile use in recipes. 

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