BotW Energizing Food: Stamina Recipes and Ingredients

What does Energizing food do in Breath of the Wild?

Energizing food refills the green stamina wheel that climbing, sprinting, swimming and gliding use up. You can eat from the menu while hanging from a cliff, which makes a stamina dish the thing that turns a long climb from a fall into a finish. It does not raise the size of the wheel; that is Enduring.

The game says: “Instantly refills some of your Stamina Wheel.” The elixir’s description: “Restores your stamina, which is used when performing physical actions such as climbing walls or swimming.”

Which ingredients give Energizing?

Six ingredients carry it. Energizing has no levels: the strengths in the pot add up and set how much of the wheel comes back, up to three full wheels in the simulator’s table. The table is not linear, so an extra ingredient does not always add the same amount.

Energetic Rhino Beetle (6) and Restless Cricket (1) are critters, so they only make the Energizing Elixir. Staminoka Bass (4) is the strongest meal ingredient. Courser Bee Honey (2) is a seasoning with a high heart value, which is why a honey dish restores more hearts than a mushroom one.

What is the easiest way to cook Energizing food?

Every row below was run through the cooking simulator built on the game’s data. “Restores” is hearts; the stamina column is how much of the green wheel comes back.

Carry a few single-ingredient dishes rather than one big pot: a lone Staminoka Bass already gives a full wheel, and three of them are enough for the maximum. Stamella Shrooms are the easiest to pick but weak, so five of them still give less than two Staminoka Bass.

Where do you find Energizing ingredients?

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

Stamella Shrooms grow all over central Hyrule and Hyrule Ridge, which makes them the ones you pick up without trying. Courser Bee Honey comes from the 50 beehives in the map data: knock one down and grab the honey. The game’s description says Bright-Eyed Crabs appear in numbers when it rains, and the compendium lists the Lanayru Great Spring for them. For the Energetic Rhino Beetle, the compendium points to the Akkala Highlands and West Necluda.

Which dishes ask for Energizing ingredients by name?

Most meals in Breath of the Wild take “any mushroom” or “any fruit”, so any of them carries Energizing when you use the ingredients above. The dishes below are the ones whose own recipe names one of those ingredients: the honey, crab and glazed dishes.

To see what your own pouch can make, open the recipe finder with Energizing 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
• Climbing set: armor that makes climbing cost less stamina
• The other effects: Hearty, Enduring, Hasty, Mighty, Tough, Chilly, Spicy, Electro, Fireproof, Sneaky