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List of Food Skills

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Last updated on: August 13, 2025 05:32 AM

Food Skills can be acquired by eating meals in Monster Hunter Wilds. Learn more about Food Skill, as well as their effects.

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Skill	Effect
Balanced Meal	Prevents you from getting knocked down.
Black Belt Meal (Hi)	Greatly reduces stamina depletion when performing stamina-draining moves such as evading, etc.
Black Belt Meal (Lo)	Reduces stamina depletion when performing stamina-draining moves such as evading, etc.
Break-time Meal	Use the Sit gesture to increase attack by 15 for 30 seconds.
Bulldozer Meal	Increases attack power right after an attack is deflected.
Caprice Meal (Hi)	Repeatedly activates a large temporary attack boost at random intervals.
Caprice Meal (Lo)	Repeatedly activates a temporary attack boost at random intervals
Capture Pro Meal	Increases capture rewards.
Carver Meal	Chance of getting 1 to 3 extra Carves.
Defender Meal (Hi)	Often decreases damage taken.
Defender Meal (Lo)	Sometimes decreases damage taken.
Escape Artist Meal	Reduces stamina consumption when running away from monsters.
Exploiter Meal	Chance to get an extra drop from destroying wounds.
Fisher Meal	Increases the likelihood that fish will bite when fishing.
Fortune Hunter Meal	Increases the amount of zenny you receive at the end of a quest.
Gatherer Meal	Sometimes increases the number of resources per gather of bones, ore, and other gatherable items.
Hardy Meal	Nullifies damage taken from environmental hazards such as lava.
Immunizer Meal	Lessens the effects of a variety of ailments.
Insurance Meal	Nullifies one faint.
Iron Carver Meal	Prevents knockbacks while carving.
Lucky Meal	Sometimes increases the number of reward items received at the end of a quest.
Medic Meal	Increases the amount of health recovered when healing.
Moxie Meal (Hi)	Prevents fainting one time and heals you when damage taken exceeds your remaining health.
Moxie Meal (Lo)	Prevents fainting one time when damage taken exceeds your remaining health.
Piping-Hot Meal	Greatly increases attack when under very low HP.
Rider Meal	Makes it easier to mount monsters.
Riser Meal	Increase invulnerable period while getting up.
Sizzling Meal	Negates the effects of hot or cold climates and increases defense while in such areas.
Specialist Meal	Increases potency of abnormal status attacks.
Swimmer Meal	Increases attack when wet.
Top Cat Meal	Increases Palico's attack and defense.
Trainer Meal	Increase Palico exp received from quests.
Tumbler Meal (Hi)	Extends the invulnerability period when evading
Tumbler Meal (Lo)	Slightly extends the invulnerability period when evading.

What are Food Skills?

Skills Obtained from Eating Meals

Food Skills

Food Skills are obtained by eating meals. The ingredients that you use to make your meals contain the food skills. Food skills last for a total of 70 minutes with additional ingredients, so always try to cook and eat a meal before hunting monsters to get useful buffs!

To make meals and get Food Skills, just go to your tent, select BBQ Menu, and choose either of the options.

How to Cook and Eat Meals

Food Skills Overview

From Additional Ingredients

Adding an Additional Ingredient will extend the food buff's duration by 20 minutes and add the ingredient's corresponding food skill. A random food skill will also be added.

Ingredient	Skill	Effect
Delishroom	Black Belt Meal (Hi)	Greatly reduces stamina depletion when performing stamina-draining moves such as evading, etc.
Droolshroom	Black Belt Meal (Lo)	Reduces stamina depletion when performing stamina-draining moves such as evading, etc.
Airy Egg	Caprice Meal (Hi)	Repeatedly activates a large temporary attack boost at random intervals.
Fluffy Egg	Caprice Meal (Lo)	Repeatedly activates a temporary attack boost at random intervals
Sharp Kunafa Cheese	Defender Meal (Hi)	Often decreases damage taken.
Kunafa Cheese	Defender Meal (Lo)	Sometimes decreases damage taken.
Specialty Sild Garlic	Moxie Meal (Hi)	Prevents fainting one time and heals you when damage taken exceeds your remaining health.
Sild Garlic	Moxie Meal (Lo)	Prevents fainting one time when damage taken exceeds your remaining health.
Turbid Shrimp	Tumbler Meal (Hi)	Extends the invulnerability period when evading
Mud Shrimp	Tumbler Meal (Lo)	Slightly extends the invulnerability period when evading.

From Finishing Touches

Adding Finishing Touches to a meal will grant +5 Element Resistances as well as the ingredient's corresponding food skill. A random food skill will also be added.

Ingredient	Skill	Effect
Truffle Du Conga	Gatherer Meal	Sometimes increases the number of resources per gather of bones, ore, and other gatherable items.
Wild Herb	Immunizer Meal	Lessens the effects of a variety of ailments.
Eastern Honey	Medic Meal	Increases the amount of health recovered when healing.
Monster Chili	Sizzling Meal	Negates the effects of hot or cold climates and increases defense while in such areas.
Wild Seed Oil	Specialist Meal	Increases potency of abnormal status attacks.
Jeweled Mullet Roe	Swimmer Meal	Increases attack when wet.

Random Food Skills

One of the following skills will be added at random when adding an Additional Ingredient and adding the Finishing Touches when cooking a meal.

Skill	Effect
Balanced Meal	Prevents you from getting knocked down.
Break-time Meal	Use the Sit gesture to increase attack by 15 for 30 seconds.
Bulldozer Meal	Increases attack power right after an attack is deflected.
Escape Artist Meal	Reduces stamina consumption when running away from monsters.
Fisher Meal	Increases the likelihood that fish will bite when fishing.
Fortune Hunter Meal	Increases the amount of zenny you receive at the end of a quest.
Hardy Meal	Nullifies damage taken from environmental hazards such as lava.
Iron Carver Meal	Prevents knockbacks while carving.
Piping-Hot Meal	Greatly increases attack when under very low HP.
Rider Meal	Makes it easier to mount monsters.
Riser Meal	Increase invulnerable period while getting up.
Top Cat Meal	Increases Palico's attack and defense.
Trainer Meal	Increase Palico exp received from quests.

From Meal Invitations

Meal invitations from different villages will offer different food skills. They all last for 90 minutes and provide +50 Health and +150 Stamina as well as two random food skills on top of the three skills listed below.

Village	Food Skills
Village	Skill 1	Skill 2	Skill 3
Kunafa (Y'sai)	Lucky Meal	Insurance Meal	Defender Meal (Hi)
Azuz (Maki)	Carver Meal	Insurance Meal	Tumbler Meal (Hi)
Sild (Tasheen)	Capture Pro Meal	Insurance Meal	Moxie Meal (Hi)
Suja (Allhearken)	Exploiter Meal	Insurance Meal	Caprice Meal (Hi)

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