TotK Mighty Bananas: Locations, Drops, and Cooking Effect

Mighty Bananas is a fruit in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The game describes it this way: “This fruit grows mainly in tropical forests of the Faron region. When it’s used as an ingredient, the resulting dish will temporarily increase your attack power.” This page shows where it is placed, lists the monsters that drop it, explains what it does in a dish, and adds up what the armor upgrades need.

Where do you find Mighty Bananas?

The map shows all 424 places the game’s world data puts Mighty Bananas: 356 on the surface, 13 in caves, and 55 in the Depths. Zoom in, and tick the ones you have picked up.

The 20 landmarks with the most, largest group first. “Show on map” moves the map above to one of them.

These are the fixed placements only. What you pick grows back after a while, so one or two reliable spots are enough.

Which monsters drop Mighty Bananas?

Best chance first. The chance is for this material on one roll of that monster’s drop table; a monster can roll more than once.

What does Mighty Bananas do in a dish?

Cooked into a dish it gives Attack Up (Mighty recipes). In the game’s cooking data its value for this effect is 2; the strongest ingredient with this effect has 3. To plan a dish from what you carry, use the recipe finder.

3 recipes in the recipe book name Mighty Bananas outright (number in the book, then the dish):

• 120 Fried Bananas
• 126 Fruitcake
• 155 Roasted Mighty Bananas

Which armor upgrades need Mighty Bananas?

3 pieces of armor. The table gives the amount each level asks for; all of them together cost 30. For every other material, see armor upgrade materials.

What else is Mighty Bananas for?

• Selling: 5 rupees each.
• Fuse: it adds 1 attack power to a weapon.

See also

• All materials
• Recipe finder
• Mighty recipes
• Armor upgrade materials
• TotK Yiga Clan: Footsoldier, Blademaster HP, Drops, Spawns
• TotK Hinox Locations: All 69, HP, Drops and Medal
• Interactive map