TotK Sunny Recipes: Ingredients and Dishes
Sunny food in Tears of the Kingdom: every ingredient that carries Gloom Recovery, how strong each is and the dishes using them.
What does Sunny do?
Gloom damages your hearts in a way ordinary healing does not undo. Sunny food is the fix: the game’s description says it restores hearts damaged by gloom.
Which ingredients give Sunny?
Only two ingredients carry it, both plants: Sundelion (12 in the cooking data) and Sun Pumpkin (4). No critter carries Sunny, so there is no Sunny elixir; it comes only in dishes. It has no levels.
- Effect
- Gloom Recovery
- Dish name prefix
- Sunny
- Elixir
- None — no critter carries this effect
- Levels
- No levels
The game says“Restores hearts damaged by gloom.”
Ingredients with this effect
| Ingredient | Type | Strength¹ | Sells for | Where it's placed² |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sundelion | plant or vegetable | 12 | 8 | sky islands 182 · Hyrule Field 41 · the Depths 25 |
| Sun Pumpkin | plant or vegetable | 4 | 5 | — |
¹ The number the game's cooking data gives each ingredient for this effect: higher is stronger, and a pot adds them up. Levels follow set thresholds on the total; the “easiest way” section below lists the combinations that reach them.
² How many times the game's world data places the ingredient at a fixed spot, and the three areas with the most (a region is the one of the nearest shrine). Ingredients from animals, monsters, ore deposits, shops or random spawns are not counted, and those listed can also turn up elsewhere.
Dishes that ask for one of these ingredients by name
- 54 Veggie Cream Soup
- 65 Vegetable Curry
- 75 Pumpkin Stew
- 79 Meat-Stuffed Pumpkin
- 80 Vegetable Risotto
- 128 Pumpkin Pie
- 162 Baked Sun Pumpkin
Any other dish whose recipe takes an ingredient of the same type ("any mushroom", "any fish") also carries the effect when you use one of these.
How many gloom-damaged hearts can one Sunny dish fix?
Sunny works like Hearty rather than like a timed buff: no levels, the points turn straight into hearts, 4 points for each heart freed from gloom. A Sundelion (12 points) repairs 3 hearts, a Sun Pumpkin (4) repairs 1.
| Pot | Points | Hearts repaired |
|---|---|---|
| Sundelion ×5 | 60 | 15 |
| Sundelion ×3 | 36 | 9 |
| Sundelion ×1 | 12 | 3 |
| Sun Pumpkin ×5 | 20 | 5 |
Both are plants, so five Sundelions on their own cook into Sunny Fried Wild Greens. The cooking parameters cap the effect at 108 points, far above what five ingredients reach. An incredible success repairs two more hearts. Never cook Sundelions with a Dark Clump hoping for both cure and protection: Sunny and Warding are different effects, and two effects in one pot cancel each other.
How many to bring depends on how long you spend in gloom. Five Sundelions cover a lot of damage; for short trips into the Depths a one- or two-Sundelion dish wastes less.
Where do you find Sundelions and Sun Pumpkins?
Sundelion is the Sunny ingredient in practice. The game’s world data places 338 of them: 182 on sky islands, 41 around Hyrule Field and 25 in the Depths. The item text matches — it grows in the sun at high altitudes. The biggest clusters are single sky islands: 25 on one above Eldin, 22 on one above Hyrule Field, 15 above Necluda.
The Sun Pumpkin is placed only twice in the world data. Its item text calls it a new variety grown in Hateno Village, so look there rather than in the wild.
Since Sunny is for the Depths, the chasms page is where the trip starts, and every Lightroot you light makes the next visit shorter.
Related
- Recipe finder — tick what is in your pouch, or pick Sunny and see every dish that can carry it
- All recipes — the whole recipe book in the game’s order
- Best recipes — the 15 effects side by side, incredible success and the Horse God
- Warding, Hearty, Bright — related effects
Need ingredients? The Sundelion farming route maps 14 selected sky-island plants and gives height checks for three stops.
FAQ
Which ingredients give Sunny?
Is there a Sunny elixir?
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