Food

, also known as Enemy Bait, is a recurring type of item in.

Food is an item that Link can purchase from Shops in. It normally costs 100 Rupees, but the Shop that also sells the Blue Ring sells Food for 60 Rupees. Link can equip and use Food to place it on the ground. This will attract certain enemies to the Food, allowing Link to attack or walk past them while distracted. The only enemies that are attracted to Food are Octoroks, Moblins, Vires, and Goriyas. Link can only place down one piece of Food at a time. However, after about 10 seconds, the Food will disappear and Link is able to place down another one.

In certain Dungeons, Link will encounter a hungry Goriya who will not let him pass to the next room until given Food. These Goriyas are found once in the First Quest within Level-7 as well as Level-3 and Level-8 of the Second Quest. In Level-7, Link must pass the hungry Goriya in order to reach the end of the Dungeon. The Goriya in Level-3 of the Second Quest guards a room full of hostile red Goriyas. If Link defeats all of them, he is rewarded with the Magical Boomerang. The Goriya in Level-8 of the Second Quest guards a path that is the only way of reaching the room that contains the Magical Key. After giving Food to a Goriya, it is gone from Link's inventory until another is purchased.

Food is a type of consumable item that Link uses to restore health and receive boosts in. Materials can be eaten raw, or be heated or frozen. Up to five Materials can also be combined together and cooked in a Cooking Pot. Only certain Materials combined can yield useful Food, and the potency of a Food's effects (e.g. the amount of Hearts or Stamina recovered) differ based on how many Materials Link used in the recipe. Failed combinations yield Dubious Food or Rock-Hard Food, which only restore minimal Hearts. 



Roasted Food
Many Materials can be roasted by subjecting them directly to high-heat. Roasted foods have 150% the heart restoration value over the raw Material, but do not provide any boosts. Unlike meals cooked in Cooking Pots, roasted foods stack in inventory.

Frozen Food
Frozen food can be created by subjecting some Materials to freezing temperatures. A 1:00 minute Low-level Heat Resistance boost is added to all Frozen food. Like Roasted foods, Frozen foods stack in inventory.

Meals
Fruits, vegetables, nuts, mushrooms, meats, and other cooking materials should be combined together to create successful dishes. Combining Monster parts or Critters with normal food items will usually result in Dubious Food or Rock-Hard Food.

If a Fairy is used as an "ingredient", it will use its magic to aid the cooking process, significantly increasing the Hearts recovered.

Each Meal made in a Cooking Pot, including duplicates, occupies a separate slot in the Pouch.

Other Food
Some foods are produced by a means other than roasting, freezing, or cooking in a Cooking Pot

Elixir Ingredients
Elixirs also provide Link with Boost effects, and can replenish health. Critters can be cooked in a Cooking Pot with at least one Monster Part to create successful Elixirs. Critters sharing the same Effect Class can be cooked together to create stronger and longer-lasting boosts.

Food Effects
In, certain ingredients carry different effects that are applied to food when it is cooked in a Cooking Pot. These effects are granted to the player at the time when food is consumed. Most of these effects have a time limit before they run out. Also, most of these effects cannot be stacked, meaning that when a player has one effect active and eats a food with a different effect, the previously active effect will be cancelled. Three exceptions to this are the Hearty, Energizing, and Enduring effects, which can be stacked with themselves until the player character's stamina and/or health are maxed out and also with one other timed effect.

The effects are as follows:

Adding more of the same ingredient with a timed effect to the cooking pot causes the timed effect on the resulting food to last longer.

Adding multiple different ingredients with the same timed effect to the cooking pot causes the timed effect on the resulting food to last longer and can also result in that food having a mid or high-level effect rather than the base low-level effect.

Adding more than one of the same ingredient or multiple different ingredients with the same non-timed effect to the cooking pot causes the resulting food to have a stronger effect than it would have had with just one ingredient with that effect.

In general, having a variety of ingredients with the same effect produces stronger bonuses than using all of the same ingredient with that effect.

Combining ingredients with different effects will not cause the resulting food to have multiple effects. Instead, in the resulting food, only one effect will be present, or the multi-effect ingredient combination will result in Dubious Food.

Ingredients
The following is a list of the Material ingredients used to cook. Ingredients may be eaten raw to restore hearts, but cooking ingredients in a Cooking Pot increase heart values and imbue food with particular effects.


 * Note: The ingredient listings above are incomplete

Effect Duration
Materials with matching Effects (ie. "Chilly") will stack duration, and may increase the effect level (from low to mid or high). Adding Materials without Effects will add to the duration.

For example:

The 8-Bit Food, based on the Food from appears as the 8-Bit Weapon for Darunia's Hammer in  and. It was added to with the  Pack DLC and in  replaces the Darkfire Hammer when the "8-Bit Weapons" Setting is turned on instead of appearing as a separate Weapon.

In and, Food can be dropped by enemies and found inside Jars within Keeps. They are used to feed Companion Fairies, which will grow to a higher level depending the quality of the Food. Like Materials, they can be found in three different qualities. Food is obtained from bronze bags, Tasty Food is obtained from silver bags and Delicious Food is obtained from gold bags.