BotW Electro Food: Shock Resistance Recipes and Ingredients

What does Electro food do in Breath of the Wild?

Electro food raises resistance to electricity; the elixir’s description recommends it against enemies with electrical attacks. It has three levels, with lower thresholds than most effects, and adds 2:30 per ingredient. The obvious place for it is Vah Naboris and the Gerudo Highlands.

The game says: “Grants low-level electricity resistance.” The elixir’s description: “Grants a low-level resistance to electricity. Useful against enemies with electrical attacks.”

Which ingredients give Electro?

Six ingredients carry it. The strengths of the matching ingredients in one pot add up, and a total of 4 or more makes Lv2 and 6 or more Lv3; anything below 4 is Lv1. Duration adds up per piece: each effect ingredient adds 2:30, up to the 30:00 cap.

Ingredient	Type	Strength	Time each	Sells for
Voltfin Trout	Fish / seafood	3	2:30	6
Zapshroom	Mushroom	2	2:30	4
Electric Darner	Critter	2	2:30	2
Voltfruit	Fruit	1	2:30	4
Electric Safflina	Plant	1	2:30	3
Thunderwing Butterfly	Critter	1	2:30	2

Voltfin Trout is the only ingredient with strength 3. Electric Darner and Zapshroom have 2; Voltfruit, Electric Safflina and Thunderwing Butterfly have 1. Electric Darner and Thunderwing Butterfly are critters, so they only make the Electro Elixir.

What is the easiest way to cook an Electro dish?

Every row below was run through the cooking simulator built on the game’s data. “Lv” is the effect level and the time is how long it lasts.

What goes in the pot	Result	Effect	Restores
Zapshroom ×2	Mushroom Skewer	Lv2 · 5:00	2 hearts
Zapshroom ×3	Mushroom Skewer	Lv3 · 7:30	3 hearts
Voltfin Trout ×2	Fish Skewer	Lv3 · 5:00	4 hearts
Voltfruit ×4	Simmered Fruit	Lv2 · 10:00	4 hearts
Zapshroom ×1 + Voltfruit ×4	Fruit and Mushroom Mix	Lv3 · 12:30	5 hearts
Electric Darner ×3 + Bokoblin Horn ×1	Electro Elixir	Lv3 · 8:40	—
Zapshroom ×3 + Shard of Dinraal’s Horn ×1	Mushroom Skewer	Lv3 · 30:00	6.75 hearts

Because Lv3 only needs 6, three Zapshrooms already reach the top. If you are in the desert, four Voltfruit and a Zapshroom give Lv3 with the longest time on this page short of a dragon part. Four Voltfruit alone stop at Lv2.

Where do you find Electro ingredients?

The compendium column is what the Hyrule Compendium shows for each entry. The last column counts where the map data places plants, mushrooms and fruit; fish and critters mostly appear from area spawns, so they have no count.

Ingredient	Compendium: common locations	Fixed placements in the map data
Voltfin Trout	Tabantha Frontier, Hyrule Ridge	—
Zapshroom	Deep Akkala, Gerudo Highlands	190; most near Rok Woods, North Akkala Valley, Akkala Wilds
Electric Darner	Hyrule Ridge, Gerudo Desert	—
Voltfruit	Gerudo Desert, Gerudo Highlands	178; most near Southern Oasis, East Barrens, Toruma Dunes
Electric Safflina	Gerudo Desert, Hyrule Ridge	89; most near Northern Icehouse, West Gerudo Ruins, Gerudo Town
Thunderwing Butterfly	Hyrule Ridge, Gerudo Highlands	—

Every placed Voltfruit is in the Gerudo Desert, growing from cacti. Zapshrooms are most common in Akkala, with clusters in North Akkala Valley, and in the Gerudo region. Electric Safflina grows in the Gerudo region too. The game’s description says Electric Darners and Thunderwing Butterflies only appear in the rain, and that Voltfin Trout live in freshwater lakes.

Which dishes ask for Electro ingredients by name?

Most meals in Breath of the Wild take “any mushroom” or “any fruit”, so any of them carries Electro when you use the ingredients above. The dishes below are the ones whose own recipe names one of those ingredients: only Creamy Heart Soup and Fruitcake, through the Voltfruit.

To see what your own pouch can make, open the recipe finder with Electro picked.

What should you read next?

• Recipe finder: tick what is in your pouch and see what you can cook
• All recipes: every meal and elixir with its recipe
• Best recipes: which effect to cook for, and the rupee recipes
• The other effects: Hearty, Energizing, Enduring, Hasty, Mighty, Tough, Chilly, Spicy, Fireproof, Sneaky