Best Food Combos | Which Food to Eat

This is a guide about the Best Food Combo in the game Valheim. Read on to learn more about the best food to eat and when you should eat them.

How to Cook Food Combos

Cooking Station

Cauldron

Windmill

Cooking food revolves around the Cooking Station and Cauldron. Once you have an Artisan Table, build a Windmill to unlock more endgame food recipes!

Check our cooking guide to learn more about Valheim's cooking mechanic:
Cooking Guide: How to Make Food

Best Food Combo for HP

This food combo is the best in the game for increasing your max HP. Eating these three food items will increase your max HP by 250 points, stamina by 210 points, and grants 12 HP Regeneration per tick (every 10 seconds).

While not necessarily required, this particular food combo is also extremely effective against bosses that deal massive amounts of damage such as The Elder and Moder.

Total: +250 HP / +210 Stamina / 12 HP Regen.
Blood Pudding	90 Health	50 Stamina
	4 HP / Tick	2400s
	Cauldron Recipe
	2 Thistles, 2 Bloodbags, 4 Barley Flour
Lox Meat Pie	80 Health	80 Stamina
	4 HP / Tick	2400s
	Cauldron Recipe
	2 Cloudberries, 2 Cooked Lox Meat, 4 Barley Flour
Serpent Stew	80 Health	80 Stamina
	4 HP / Tick	2400s
	Cauldron Recipe
	1 Mushroom, 1 Cooked Serpent Meat, 2 Honey

Best Food Combo for Stamina

This food combo is the best for maximizing your stamina over your HP. Eating these food items will increase your max stamina by 250 points, max HP 220 points, and grants 12 HP Regeneration per tick (every 10 seconds).

While not necessarily required, this particular food combo is useful against bosses that force you to reposition often such as Bonemass and Yagluth.

Total: +220 HP / +250 Stamina / 12 HP Regen.
Fish Wraps	60 Health	90 Stamina
	4 HP / Tick	2400s
	Cauldron Recipe
	2 Cooked Fish, 4 Barley Flour
Lox Meat Pie	80 Health	80 Stamina
	4 HP / Tick	2400s
	Cauldron Recipe
	2 Cloudberries, 2 Cooked Lox Meat, 4 Barley Flour
Serpent Stew	80 Health	80 Stamina
	4 HP / Tick	2400s
	Cauldron Recipe
	1 Mushroom, 1 Cooked Serpent Meat, 2 Honey

Early Game Food Combos

This food combo may require some Hunting and Fishing early in the game, but this is the easiest way to increase your HP early on.

Total: +120 HP / +75 Stamina / 8 HP Regen.
Cooked Fish	45 Health	25 Stamina
	2 HP / Tick	1200s
	Requires Raw Fish cooked on a Cooking Station.
Cooked Meat	40 Health	30 Stamina
	2 HP / Tick	1200s
	Requires Raw Meat cooked on a Cooking Station.
Grilled Neck Tail	35 Health	20 Stamina
	2 HP / Tick	1000s
	Requires Neck Tail cooked on a Cooking Station.

You can replace Cooked Fish with the following food items If you do not have a Fishing Rod:

Cooked Fish Substitutes
Mushroom	15 Health	20 Stamina
	1 HP / Tick	600s
	Foraged from the Meadows Biome.
Raspberries	10 Health	20 Stamina
	1 HP / Tick	600s
	Foraged from the Meadows Biome.
Blueberries	15 Health	20 Stamina
	1 HP / Tick	600s
	Foraged from the Black Forest Biome.
Yellow Mushroom	20 Health	20 Stamina
	1 HP / Tick	600s
	Foraged from Dungeons within Black Forest and Swamp biomes.
Honey	20 Health	20 Stamina
	5 HP / Tick	300s
	Harvested from built Beehives.

Most Efficient Food Combo

Early-To-Mid Game

Once you build a Cauldron in your base, the most efficient Food Combo in the early-to-mid stages of the game include Sausages.

These are very easy to make since you can get multiple Entrails from Draugrs, while Raw Meat and Thistle can be easily stockpiled by hunting and foraging.

Total: +145 HP / +95 Stamina / 7 HP Regen.
Sausages	60 Health	40 Stamina
	3 HP / Tick	1600s
	Cauldron Recipe
	2 Entrails, 1 Raw Meat, 4 Thistle
Cooked Fish	45 Health	25 Stamina
	2 HP / Tick	1200s
	Requires Raw Fish cooked on a Cooking Station.
Cooked Meat	40 Health	30 Stamina
	2 HP / Tick	1200s
	Requires Raw Meat cooked on a Cooking Station.

Mid-to-Late Game

The most efficient food combo mid to late game is available once you are able to hunt Loxes and Serpents. You simply just have to cook their meat on a Cooking Station!

This food combo can rival the other best food combos because of how cheap and easy it is to make in comparison.

Total: +200 HP / +120 Stamina / 9 HP Regen.
Cooked Lox Meat	70 Health	40 Stamina
	3 HP / Tick	2000s
	Requires Lox Meat cooked on a Cooking Station.
Cooked Serpent Meat	70 Health	40 Stamina
	3 HP / Tick	2000s
	Requires Serpent Meat cooked on a Cooking Station.
Sausages	60 Health	40 Stamina
	3 HP / Tick	1600s
	Cauldron Recipe
	2 Entrails, 1 Raw Meat, 4 Thistle

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