BotW Mighty Food: Attack Recipes and Ingredients

What does Mighty food do in Breath of the Wild?

Mighty food boosts attack power with all weapons, as the elixir’s description says. It has three levels. Eat it just before a hard fight: a Lynel, a Guardian or one of the Blights. Durations are short, 50 seconds per ingredient, so it pays to add a dragon part or eat it at the door.

The game says: “Grants a low-level attack-power boost.” The elixir’s description: “Grants a low-level might effect, which strengthens your body and mind to boost your attack power with all weapons.”

Which ingredients give Mighty?

Seven ingredients carry it. The strengths of the matching ingredients in one pot add up, and a total of 5 or more makes Lv2 and 7 or more Lv3; anything below 5 is Lv1. Duration adds up per piece: each effect ingredient adds 0:50, up to the 30:00 cap.

Ingredient	Type	Strength	Time each	Sells for
Mighty Porgy	Fish / seafood	3	0:50	10
Mighty Carp	Fish / seafood	2	0:50	10
Razorclaw Crab	Fish / seafood	2	0:50	8
Razorshroom	Mushroom	2	0:50	5
Mighty Bananas	Fruit	2	0:50	5
Mighty Thistle	Plant	1	0:50	5
Bladed Rhino Beetle	Critter	1	0:50	4

Mighty Porgy is the only ingredient with strength 3. Mighty Carp, Razorshroom, Razorclaw Crab and Mighty Bananas have 2; Mighty Thistle and Bladed Rhino Beetle have 1. The beetle is the only critter, so it is the only way to a Mighty Elixir.

What is the easiest way to cook a Mighty 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
Mighty Bananas ×3	Simmered Fruit	Lv2 · 2:30	3 hearts
Mighty Bananas ×4	Simmered Fruit	Lv3 · 3:20	4 hearts
Razorshroom ×4	Mushroom Skewer	Lv3 · 3:20	4 hearts
Mighty Porgy ×3	Fish Skewer	Lv3 · 2:30	6 hearts
Mighty Thistle ×5	Fried Wild Greens	Lv2 · 4:10	0 hearts
Bladed Rhino Beetle ×4 + Bokoblin Horn ×1	Mighty Elixir	Lv1 · 4:30	—
Mighty Bananas ×4 + Shard of Dinraal’s Horn ×1	Simmered Fruit	Lv3 · 30:00	7.75 hearts

Four Mighty Bananas are the easy top-level recipe, and the game places 197 of them. Three Mighty Porgies do the same with a slot to spare for time. Short durations are the weak point; a dragon horn shard lifts the dish to the 30:00 cap, and a critical success can add a level or five minutes.

Where do you find Mighty 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, crabs and critters mostly appear from area spawns, so they have no count.

Ingredient	Compendium: common locations	Fixed placements in the map data
Mighty Porgy	Necluda Sea, Lanayru Sea	—
Mighty Carp	Akkala Highlands, Lanayru Great Spring	—
Razorclaw Crab	Necluda Sea, East Necluda	—
Razorshroom	Great Hyrule Forest, Tabantha Frontier	224; most near Minshi Woods, Elma Knolls, Tanagar Canyon
Mighty Bananas	Faron	197; most near Yiga Clan Hideout, Rassla Lake, Ubota Point
Mighty Thistle	West Necluda, Faron Grasslands	86; most near Great Fairy Fountain, Riola Spring, Bronas Forest
Bladed Rhino Beetle	West Necluda, East Necluda	—

Mighty Bananas grow in the Faron jungle, and a large stand grows around the Yiga Clan Hideout in the Gerudo Highlands. Razorshrooms are most common in the Woodland tower region around Minshi Woods. Mighty Porgies are sea fish; the compendium lists the Necluda Sea and the Lanayru Sea. Mighty Thistles grow around Great Fairy Fountains among other places. For the elixir’s monster part, see the Lynel and Hinox pages.

Which dishes ask for Mighty ingredients by name?

Most meals in Breath of the Wild take “any mushroom” or “any fruit”, so any of them carries Mighty when you use the ingredients above. The dishes below are the ones whose own recipe names one of those ingredients, such as Fried Bananas, Porgy Meunière and the crab dishes.

To see what your own pouch can make, open the recipe finder with Mighty 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
• Best weapons: what to hit with once the buff is on
• The other effects: Hearty, Energizing, Enduring, Hasty, Tough, Chilly, Spicy, Electro, Fireproof, Sneaky