List of All Food: Every Buff, Recipe, and Where to Get It

Palworld has 121 food entries, but only 93 of them can actually be obtained — 60 cooked dishes and 33 raw ingredients, with 38 of those carrying a real stat buff when you eat them. This page lists every one: nutrition and SAN restored, the exact buff and how long it lasts, full recipes, which Pal or crop each ingredient comes from, and the 28 foods sitting unfinished in the game files.

How Food Works in Palworld

Every food does two things at once. Nutrition refills your hunger bar, and SAN restores sanity — and the split between them is brutal. Raw ingredients restore zero SAN no matter how filling they are, which is why Broncherry Meat fills 180 nutrition and does nothing for your mood, while Special Cake hands over 738 nutrition and 92 SAN in one bite.

Cooked dishes add a third layer: a timed stat buff. Almost all of them run for exactly 10 minutes, so a buff is something you eat right before a fight or a farming session, not something you keep topped up. Only two foods break that rule, and they are both EXP dishes that last half an hour. Eating a second dish of the same buff type refreshes the timer rather than stacking the number.

All Food Categories and How Many There Are

Meat dishes are the biggest group by a wide margin, and they own the combat buffs — every attack-boosting food in the game is a meat dish. Vegetable dishes are second, but they carry the cakes, which is why that category holds the five highest nutrition values in Palworld. Raw vegetables are the weakest thing you can eat and exist almost entirely as cooking inputs: the best of them, Cavern Mushroom, restores 15 nutrition.

Category	Obtainable	Best of the group	Nutrition
Meat dishes	31	Mammorest Curry	418
Vegetable dishes	18	Special Cake	738
Raw Pal meat	17	Broncherry Meat	180
Raw vegetables and produce	14	Cavern Mushroom	15
Fish dishes	11	Seafood Pasta	193
Raw fish	2	Raw Dumud	50
Everything you can get	93	—	—

Every Food Buff in Palworld

This is the part of the food system most players never touch, and it is worth more than the hunger bar. Thirty-eight obtainable foods apply a timed buff, split across attack, defense, work speed, sanity and hunger resistance, plus a handful of oddities. The tables below group each dish by its headline effect and list the secondary effect where it has one — several dishes carry two.

Attack Buff Food

Mammorest Curry is the strongest attack food in the game at +25%, and nothing else comes close on nutrition either — 418 is the highest of any non-cake dish. It costs one Mammorest Meat plus common crops, and a single Mammorest drops 2 meat, so one kill is two currys. Bring it to raid bosses and tower fights. If you are still early and cannot reach a Mammorest safely, Eikthyrdeer Loco Moco gives +20% off an Eikthyrdeer and two eggs.

Dish	Attack buff	Also gives	Nutrition	SAN	Recipe
Mammorest Curry	+25%	—	418	52	1 Mammorest Meat, 2 Onion, 2 Carrot, 2 Potato, 2 Red Berries
Broncherry Fried Noodles	+20%	—	321	40	1 Broncherry Meat, 1 Onion, 1 Carrot, 1 Flour
Mozzarina Cheeseburger	+20%	+50% hunger resist	288	36	2 Mozzarina Meat, 1 Flour, 2 Tomato, 2 Milk
Eikthyrdeer Loco Moco	+20%	—	174	22	1 Eikthyrdeer Venison, 2 Red Berries, 2 Egg
Rushoar Bacon 'n' Eggs	+10%	—	167	21	2 Rushoar Pork, 2 Egg
Rushoar Gyoza	+10%	+25% hunger resist	115	20	1 Rushoar Pork, 1 Mushroom, 1 Flour
Omelet	+10%	—	67	7	1 Tomato, 2 Egg

Defense Buff Food

The defense ladder tops out higher than the attack one: Galeclaw Nikujaga gives +25% damage reduction, and Galeclaw is a common early flyer, so this is far cheaper to mass-produce than Mammorest Curry. Its weakness is nutrition — 150, versus 212 on Eikthyrdeer Stew at +20%. For long raid attempts the stew is usually the better single slot because it keeps you fed as well. Gratin is the pick if you want defense that survives an entire expedition, since its +50% hunger resistance stretches the meal much further.

Dish	Defense buff	Also gives	Nutrition	SAN	Recipe
Galeclaw Nikujaga	+25%	—	150	19	1 Galeclaw Poultry, 2 Onion, 2 Carrot, 2 Potato
Eikthyrdeer Stew	+20%	—	212	27	2 Eikthyrdeer Venison, 1 Mushroom, 2 Milk
Rushoar Hot Dog	+20%	—	140	18	1 Rushoar Pork, 1 Flour, 2 Lettuce
Carbonara	+20%	—	129	16	1 Flour, 2 Egg, 2 Milk
Gratin	+10%	+50% hunger resist	113	14	2 Milk, 2 Potato, 1 Flour
Herb Roasted Lamball	+10%	—	94	12	1 Lamball Mutton, 2 Red Berries
Marinated Mushrooms	+10%	—	60	7	1 Mushroom, 2 Red Berries
Stir-Fried Vegetables	+10%	+10% work speed	54	7	2 Onion, 2 Carrot

Work Speed Food for Base Pals

Work speed food is the most under-used category in Palworld, because these buffs apply to Pals eating out of the Feed Box too. Dumud Chowder and Mozzarina Hamburger both give +50%, the highest in the game, and Dumud is one of the easiest Pals on the map to farm. Stock a Feed Box with either one and your whole base speeds up for the duration. Salad is the low-effort version — two lettuce, two tomato, +30% — and it is the one to bulk-produce once your plantations are running.

Dish	Work speed	Also gives	Nutrition	SAN	Recipe
Dumud Chowder	+50%	+25% hunger resist	170	21	1 Raw Dumud, 2 Lettuce, 2 Tomato
Mozzarina Hamburger	+50%	+25% SAN resist	162	20	1 Mozzarina Meat, 1 Flour, 2 Lettuce
Minestrone	+40%	—	146	18	3 Tomato, 2 Carrot, 2 Onion, 1 Potato
Pizza	+30%	+25% hunger resist	184	23	1 Flour, 2 Red Berries, 2 Tomato, 2 Milk
Grilled Lamball	+30%	+20% SAN resist	147	18	1 Lamball Mutton, 2 Lettuce
Fried Chikipi	+30%	+25% SAN resist	108	14	1 Chikipi Poultry, 1 Flour, 1 Egg, 1 Pal Oil
Chikipi Sauté	+30%	—	92	12	1 Chikipi Poultry, 2 Red Berries
Salad	+30%	—	84	11	2 Lettuce, 2 Tomato

SAN and Hunger Resistance Food

SAN resistance slows how fast sanity drains, and hunger resistance slows the hunger bar — both are prevention rather than recovery, and both matter most on Pals working long shifts. Mushroom Quiche is the standout because it is the only dish carrying +50% on both at once, on top of 184 nutrition. Spring Rolls and Fried Kelpsea also hit +50% SAN resistance while bolting on a combat stat, which makes them better all-round Feed Box filler than the pure SAN options like Pancake.

Dish	SAN resist	Hunger resist	Also gives	Nutrition	Recipe
Mushroom Quiche	+50%	+50%	—	184	1 Flour, 2 Mushroom, 2 Onion, 2 Egg, 2 Milk
Spring Rolls	+50%	—	+10% attack	115	2 Onion, 2 Mushroom, 1 Flour
Fried Kelpsea	+50%	—	+10% defense	108	1 Raw Kelpsea, 1 Flour, 1 Egg, 1 Pal Oil
Reindrix Stew	—	+25%	—	132	1 Reindrix Venison, 2 Tomato
Stewed Galeclaw	+20%	—	—	92	1 Galeclaw Poultry, 2 Red Berries
Mushroom Soup	—	+25%	—	52	1 Mushroom, 2 Milk
Pancake	+25%	—	—	42	1 Flour, 1 Milk
French Fries	+25%	—	—	35	2 Potato, 1 Pal Oil

EXP and Situational Food

Five dishes do something no other food does. Seafood Salad and Fried Gloopie Balls are the only foods with a 30-minute timer instead of 10, and the salad's +20% EXP is the single best levelling buff you can eat — pair it with a tower XP farm run. Seafood Pasta hands out full explosion resistance, which is the answer to grenade-heavy Syndicate camps, and Salt-Grilled Skutlass makes you immune to flinching and knockback — enormous when a boss keeps interrupting your reloads. All four need Pal meat from water Pals, so keep a fishing-adjacent base stocked.

Dish	Effect	Duration	Nutrition	Recipe
Seafood Salad	+20% EXP gained	30 min	95	3 Gloopie Tentacle, 4 Lettuce
Fried Gloopie Balls	+10% EXP gained	30 min	80	2 Gloopie Tentacle, 3 Flour
Seafood Pasta	+100% explosion resistance	10 min	193	3 Gloopie Tentacle, 3 Flour, 2 Tomato
Salt-Grilled Skutlass	Immune to flinch and knockback	10 min	90	1 Skutlass Sashimi
Jellroy's Jolly Jelly	+10% EXP and +10% defense	10 min	60	2 Jellroy Bell Flesh, 2 Red Berries
Jelliette's Jiggly Jelly	+10% EXP and +10% attack	10 min	58	2 Jelliette Bell Flesh, 2 Aquatic Pal Fluids

Highest Nutrition Food in Palworld

If you only care about filling the hunger bar, the five cakes are in a league of their own — Special Cake restores 738 nutrition and 92 SAN for 1.0 weight, roughly four times what the best combat dish manages. They are also the most expensive things in the kitchen, and their real job is breeding, so burning one as a meal is usually a waste. Below the cakes, Mammorest Curry at 418 is the practical answer for a single filling slot. Watch the weight column though: the plain roasts like Broncherry Rib Roast restore 252 but weigh 5.0 each, ten times a curry, so they clog your bag fast.

Food	Nutrition	SAN	Weight	Notes
Special Cake	738	92	1.0	Best breeding cake, unlocks at Lv. 74
Extravagant Vegetable Cake	717	90	1.0	Lv. 60 unlock, no meat needed
Vegetable Cake	696	87	1.0	Lv. 47 unlock
Mushroom Cake	676	84	1.0	Lv. 30 unlock
Cake	656	82	1.0	Comes free with the Breeding Farm
Mammorest Curry	418	52	0.5	Best nutrition-per-weight dish with a buff
Broncherry Fried Noodles	321	40	0.5	+20% attack
Mozzarina Cheeseburger	288	36	0.5	+20% attack, +50% hunger resist
Broncherry Rib Roast	252	3	5.0	One-ingredient roast, very heavy
Mammorest Steak	252	3	5.0	One-ingredient roast, very heavy
Roast Reindrix	252	1	2.0	Best nutrition available at the Campfire
Eikthyrdeer Stew	212	27	0.5	+20% defense

All Cakes and What They Do

Cakes are food on paper and breeding currency in practice — one goes into the Breeding Farm chest per egg. The base Cake comes free with the Breeding Farm at Lv. 19, and the four upgrades are separate technologies costing 4 points each. The upgrades are not just bigger meals: Special Cake specifically raises the odds of an egg inheriting multiple passive skills from its parents, which is what makes it the endgame pick for min-maxing. Extravagant Vegetable Cake is the sleeper — it needs no meat and no honey, just crops and cotton candy, so a fully planted base can run it forever.

Cake	Unlock level	Tech cost	Nutrition	SAN	Materials
Cake	19 (with Breeding Farm)	Included	656	82	5 Flour, 8 Red Berries, 7 Milk, 8 Egg, 2 Honey
Mushroom Cake	30	4	676	84	5 Flour, 5 Mushroom, 3 Cavern Mushroom, 8 Egg, 2 Honey
Vegetable Cake	47	4	696	87	8 Flour, 8 Tomato, 7 Lettuce, 8 Egg, 4 Honey
Extravagant Vegetable Cake	60	4	717	90	12 Flour, 8 Cotton Candy, 10 Potato, 6 Onion, 8 Carrot
Special Cake	74	4	738	92	20 Flour, 8 Caramel Cotton Candy, 15 Milk, 15 Egg, 2 Mammorest Meat

All Raw Meat and Fish, and Which Pals Drop It

Every raw meat comes off a specific Pal, and the difference between them is enormous — Broncherry and Mammorest meat restore 180 nutrition each, five times what Chikipi poultry gives, and both drop 2 per kill. They are also the ingredients the two strongest attack dishes need. The pin counts below are how many spawn points each Pal has across the map, so Kelpsea at 2,742 pins is the easiest meat in the game to farm, and Reindrix at 128 is the hardest of the common ones.

A Meat Cleaver turns any caught Pal into its meat drop, which is how you farm the rarer entries without hunting the spawn points at all. Open the interactive Palworld map and switch on a Pal's layer to route a farming loop.

Raw food	Nutrition	Weight	Dropped by	Per kill	Spawn pins
Broncherry Meat	180	5.0	Broncherry	2	984
Mammorest Meat	180	5.0	Mammorest	2	968
Skutlass Sashimi	80	5.0	Skutlass	1-2	274
Reindrix Venison	64	2.0	Reindrix	2	128
Caprity Meat	57	2.5	Caprity	2	786
Mozzarina Meat	57	2.5	Mozzarina	2-3	222
Eikthyrdeer Venison	50	2.0	Eikthyrdeer	2	454
Raw Dumud	50	2.0	Dumud	2	744
Rushoar Pork	43	2.0	Rushoar	1-2	296
Munchill Meat	42	5.0	Munchill	1	458
Gloopie Tentacle	40	5.0	Gloopie	1-2	1,018
Jellroy Bell Flesh	37	5.0	Jellroy	1	1,206
Lamball Mutton	37	1.0	Lamball	1	702
Chikipi Poultry	36	1.0	Chikipi	1	548
Galeclaw Poultry	36	1.0	Galeclaw	1	858
Raw Kelpsea	36	1.0	Kelpsea	1	2,742
Jelliette Bell Flesh	35	5.0	Jelliette	1	990

All Crops and Where to Grow Them

Nine crops exist and only eight of them have a plantation you can build — Red Berries at Lv. 5 is the first, Onion at Lv. 36 the last. Growth time is the flat part, but the work value is what actually decides throughput, and it varies wildly: berries need 13,500 work per harvest while onions need 63,000, so an onion plantation demands roughly five times the planting and gathering Pals to keep up. Every crop yields 10 per harvest regardless.

Wheat is the one to build first even though it is the weakest food, because Flour is an ingredient in almost every worthwhile dish and the Mill turns 3 wheat into 1 flour. Merchants also sell most seeds and the crops themselves, which is the fast way to test a recipe before committing a plantation.

Crop	Grow time	Yield	Plantation level	Merchant price	Nutrition
Red Berries	3.0 min	10	5	50 Gold	15
Wheat	4.5 min	10	15	70 Gold	6
Tomato	5.0 min	10	21	80 Gold	15
Lettuce	5.5 min	10	25	80 Gold	15
Potato	5.8 min	10	29	100 Gold	11
Carrot	6.2 min	10	32	100 Gold	10
Onion	6.5 min	10	36	100 Gold	9
Flour	Crafted at the Mill	1 per 3 Wheat	15	—	3

All Ranch Food and Foraged Ingredients

Six food ingredients come from Pals sitting in a Ranch rather than from farming or killing anything, and they are the ones the cake recipes eat. Chikipi eggs and Mozzarina milk are the two you need in bulk — a Special Cake alone wants 15 of each — and both Pals are cheap to breed. Beegarde honey is the awkward one: only 43 spawn points on the map and a rank-3 ranch requirement, so most players get honey by breeding it instead of hunting it.

Mushrooms are the exception that is foraged, not ranched. Regular Mushroom nodes are scarce on the surface at 274 pins, while Cavern Mushroom has 1,445 nodes underground — that is why Mushroom Cake is easier to supply than its level suggests, and why cave runs are worth doing for food and not just ore.

Ingredient	Source	Nutrition	Where to get it
Egg	Chikipi ranch	16	Rank 1 ranch, 274 ranch-eligible spawn spots, or 200 Gold from merchants
Milk	Mozzarina ranch	12	Rank 2 ranch, also drops 1 per kill, or 200 Gold
Honey	Beegarde ranch	10	Rank 3 ranch only — no merchant sells it
Mushroom	Shroomer ranch or foraging	13	274 surface nodes, rank 3 ranch, or 300 Gold
Cavern Mushroom	Foraging underground	15	1,445 nodes inside caves, or 500 Gold
Cotton Candy	Woolipop ranch	5	Rank 1 ranch, restores 5 SAN
Caramel Cotton Candy	Woolipop Terra ranch	5	Rank 1 ranch — only 26 spawn spots, breed for it
Red Berries	Caprity ranch or foraging	15	1,906 berry bushes, rank 1 ranch, or 50 Gold

Where to Cook Food

Four kitchens and a mill cover every recipe in the game, and the jump that matters is the Cooking Pot at Lv. 17 — that is where real dishes with buffs start, versus the Campfire, which only handles single-ingredient roasts. The Electric Kitchen at Lv. 41 does not unlock new recipes so much as cook the same ones far faster, and the Ancient Kitchen at Lv. 70 is the endgame version. Whichever you build, staff it with a kindling Pal — cooking is a Kindling job, and work speed on that Pal is the real bottleneck on cake production.

Station	Unlock level	Materials	What it handles
Campfire	2	10 Wood	Single-ingredient roasts and grilled meat
Mill	15	10 Wooden Board, 40 Stone, 10 Ingot	Turns 3 Wheat into 1 Flour
Cooking Pot	17	5 Wooden Board, 15 Ingot, 3 Flame Organ	Multi-ingredient dishes and cakes
Electric Kitchen	41	30 Refined Ingot, 5 Circuit Board, 20 Charcoal, 5 Flame Organ	Same recipes, much faster, needs power
Ancient Kitchen	70	80 Soralite Ingot, 30 Thermal Core, 50 Cryogenic Coolant, 10 Ancient Civilization Core	Endgame kitchen, costs Ancient points

How to Stop Food From Spoiling

Food rots in your inventory and in ordinary chests, and cooking resets the timer — which is the practical reason to cook meat the moment you get home instead of stockpiling it raw. Cooling structures slow decay rather than stopping it, and they get better as you climb: the Cooler Box at Lv. 13 is the cheap first step, the Refrigerator at Lv. 38 is the one worth committing to, and the Cold Food Box at Lv. 51 is the only cooled container that also feeds your Pals.

Every cooler needs an ice Pal assigned to run it, so pair one with a good cooling Pal or the box does nothing. The Feed Box at Lv. 4 is not cooled at all — stock it with cheap, buff-carrying dishes you can replace constantly rather than anything precious.

Structure	Unlock level	Materials	Role
Feed Box	4	20 Wood	Auto-feeds base Pals, no cooling
Cooler Box	13	10 Ingot, 10 Stone, 2 Ice Organ	First cooled storage, needs an ice Pal
Cooler	18	20 Ingot, 20 Stone, 5 Ice Organ	Bigger version of the Cooler Box
Refrigerator	38	50 Refined Ingot, 20 Polymer, 10 Cryogenic Coolant, 5 Circuit Board	Powered, the main mid-game food store
Electric Cooler	42	30 Refined Ingot, 10 Circuit Board, 10 Cryogenic Coolant	Powered cooler, no ice Pal needed
Cold Food Box	51	20 Pal Metal Ingot, 20 Plasteel, 15 Cryogenic Coolant	Cooled Feed Box — feeds Pals without spoiling

Food That Wrecks Your Sanity

Four consumables trade sanity for work speed, and the exchange rate ranges from bad to catastrophic. Mysterious Mushroom is the mild one — 1 nutrition, 3 SAN restored, and a 1-minute debuff that makes hunger drain 25% faster. The juices are the serious version: Suspicious Juice gives +200% work speed, Strange Juice gives +400%, and Mysterious Mushroom Juice gives +600% — each for only 10 seconds, and each with a sanity penalty so large the Pal drinking it will need a hot spring afterwards.

These are technically medicine rather than food, but they end up in Feed Boxes constantly and behave the same way, so they belong on this list. Use them for a single frantic crafting push, never as standing base supply.

Item	Work speed	Duration	SAN restored	Sanity cost
Mysterious Mushroom	—	1 min	3	Hunger drains 25% faster
Suspicious Juice	+200%	10 sec	30	Severe
Strange Juice	+400%	10 sec	60	Extreme
Mysterious Mushroom Juice	+600%	10 sec	80	Ruinous
Nutrient Tonic	—	10 min	1	None — keeps your stomach full instead

Food in the Files You Cannot Get

This is where most food lists go wrong. Of the 121 food entries in Palworld, 28 have no recipe, no shop, no drop and no crop attached to them — they exist with full stats, icons and in some cases working buffs, but nothing in the world hands them to you. Cheeseburger is the most striking: 338 nutrition and a +30% hunger resist, +10% defense buff, and completely unobtainable. Corn and Pumpkin are the odd pair — both have growth data, but no seed item and no plantation exists for either.

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