The best food in Valheim

Valheim has 97 foods, and most of them are outclassed by a handful of dishes. This guide covers the rules of eating first, then the strongest foods for health, stamina and eitr, then the foods that last longest. It ends with the best food from each biome, in the order you reach them.

How eating works

You can eat three foods at once. Each adds its health, stamina and eitr to a base of 25 health and 50 stamina.
Each of the three slots needs a different food. You cannot eat the same food twice at once.
A food gives its full value when you eat it and less as its timer runs down.
You can eat the same food again once half of its time is gone.

Choosing food therefore means choosing three different dishes. Because a food's value fades as its timer runs down, how long it lasts matters as well as how much it gives.

The tables below show each food's health, stamina and eitr, its duration in minutes, and its regeneration per tick.

Foods with the most health

If you want a bigger health bar, these are the foods to look at.

Food	Health	Stamina	Minutes	Regen per tick
Meat In Bread	110	37	30	7
Seal Meat Soup	110	37	30	7
Piquant Pie	105	35	30	6
Smoked Moose Meat	105	35	25	7
Mashed Meat	100	34	25	6
Fiery Svinstew	95	32	25	6
Cooked Bonemaw Meat	90	30	25	6
Misthare Supreme	85	28	25	5

Meat In Bread and Seal Meat Soup tie at 110 health and last 30 minutes. Smoked Moose Meat matches them on regeneration at 7 per tick, but gives 105 health and lasts 25 minutes. Piquant Pie gives the same 105 health and lasts 30 minutes, with regeneration of 6 per tick.

None of these foods gives any eitr, and all of them give much less stamina than health.

Foods with the most stamina

Food	Health	Stamina	Eitr	Minutes	Regen per tick
Oatmeal	39	115	85	30	5
Pancakes	39	115	0	30	5
Oat Milk	37	110	0	25	5
Kale Chips	35	105	0	25	5
Lingonberry Juice	35	105	0	25	5
Roasted Crust Pie	34	100	0	30	4
Scorching Medley	32	95	0	25	4
Fish 'n' Bread	30	90	0	30	3

Oatmeal and Pancakes tie at 115 stamina, but Oatmeal also gives 85 eitr, so it is the better pick if you want stamina and eitr from a single slot. Lingonberry Juice comes from the Deep North, which makes it the last biome in the progression covered below.

The best stamina foods give about a third as much health as stamina, the reverse of the health foods above.

Foods with the most eitr

Food	Health	Stamina	Eitr	Minutes	Regen per tick
Fish Soup	37	18	105	30	5
Meatballs and Poteitr	35	18	105	25	5
Oven Pancake	37	18	105	30	5
Baked Poteitr	34	17	100	25	5
Marinated Greens	32	16	95	30	4

Fish Soup, Meatballs and Poteitr and Oven Pancake all give 105 eitr. Fish Soup and Oven Pancake also last 30 minutes, against 25 for Meatballs and Poteitr. Oatmeal, in the stamina table, gives less eitr than any of these (85), but far more stamina.

Longest-lasting foods

Every food in this table lasts 50 minutes, longer than anything in the tables above. They differ widely in what they give.

Food	Health	Stamina	Eitr	Minutes	Regen per tick
Ashlands Gourmet Bowl	75	75	38	50	6
Black Forest Buffet Platter	35	35	0	50	3
Hearty Mountain Logger's Stew	45	45	0	50	3
Mushrooms Galore á la Mistlands	65	65	33	50	5
Northern Morning Fare	85	85	43	50	7

Each of these gives equal health and stamina. Northern Morning Fare is the strongest, with 85 health, 85 stamina, 43 eitr and regeneration of 7 per tick. Ashlands Gourmet Bowl and Mushrooms Galore á la Mistlands come next, and both also give eitr. Black Forest Buffet Platter and Hearty Mountain Logger's Stew give the least, with no eitr and regeneration of 3 per tick.

The best foods by biome

The table lists the best foods whose ingredients come from each biome, in the order you reach those biomes. Muckshake is the only drink here; everything else is food.

Biome	Food	Health	Stamina	Eitr	Minutes	Regen per tick
Meadows	Mushroom	15	15	0	15	1
Meadows	Raspberries	7	20	0	10	1
Black Forest	Queen's Jam	14	40	0	20	2
Black Forest	Blueberries	8	25	0	10	1
Swamp	Sausages	55	18	0	25	3
Swamp	Muckshake	16	50	0	20	1
Mountains	Eyescream	21	65	0	25	1
Plains	Cloudberries	13	40	0	15	1
Plains	Cooked Egg	35	12	0	20	2
Mistlands	Mushroom Omelette	28	85	0	25	3
Mistlands	Jotun Puffs	25	25	0	15	1
Mistlands	Magecap	25	25	25	15	1
Ashlands	Smoke Puff	15	15	0	15	1
Deep North	Lingonberry Juice	35	105	0	25	5
Deep North	Salad	26	80	0	25	3
Deep North	Bread	23	70	0	25	2
Deep North	Wolf Skewer	65	21	0	25	3

What the progression shows

Meadows and Black Forest: Foods are small. Mushroom gives 15 health and 15 stamina, and Queen's Jam gives 14 health and 40 stamina.
Swamp: Sausages jump to 55 health and last 25 minutes, so this is the first biome with a real health food.
Mountains: Eyescream gives 65 stamina, more than Muckshake's 50 from the Swamp.
Plains: Cooked Egg gives 35 health, less than Sausages. Cloudberries give 40 stamina, the same as Queen's Jam.
Mistlands: Mushroom Omelette gives 85 stamina, the best stamina food so far. Magecap is the first food in this list to give eitr, at 25.
Ashlands: Smoke Puff gives 15 health and 15 stamina, the same as Mushroom from the Meadows.
Deep North: This biome has the strongest foods on the list. Lingonberry Juice gives 105 stamina, and Wolf Skewer gives 65 health, more than Sausages from the Swamp. Salad and Bread both give more stamina than Eyescream, at 80 and 70.

For stamina, the Deep North's Lingonberry Juice is the best of these, with Mushroom Omelette from the Mistlands next at 85. For health, Wolf Skewer comes first and Sausages second.

Written from the game data of Valheim 1.0.17, last updated October 10, 2026.

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