Food and Drink

**Food and Drink**, one of the four primary categories of loot in DayZ, refers to any item or liquid that can be consumed by a survivor for sustenance. Used to replenish a survivor's energy and hydration, food and drink is perhaps the most important of the four categories of loot. Food typically replenishes both energy and hydration, while drink typically only replenishes hydration.

Food decays over time.
All food items will be good for a certain amount of hours, before it spoils and becomes rotten. Food will decay between 75-100% of the items decay time limit. This makes it important to prepare raw food before it spoils as cooked goods last longer.
Food will also spoil faster in the players inventory than in a tent or elsewhere on the server.

A comparison of nutritional values can be found below in the Comparison Tables. Energy/Water is defined as the quantity of energy/water that a full item contains. However few items have 100% of its content remaining so the effective value is often lower (e.g. opening cans or skinning animals). The stomach value indicates how many milliliters of your stomach's 2000 ml capacity the food will take up.

## Food

### Canned Goods

Brisket Spread

Canned Bacon

Canned
Baked Beans

Canned Peaches

Canned Sardines

Canned Spaghetti

Canned Tuna

Canned Pork

Cat Food Can

Dog Food Can

Lunchmeat

Strawberry Jam

Honey

Liver Pate

Pájka

Unknown Food Can

### Dry Goods

Candy Cane

Cereals

Chips

Crackers

Rice

Powdered Milk

Salty Sticks

Zagorky

Zagorky Chocolate

Zagorky Peanuts

### Fruits

Apple

Pear

Plum

Tomato

### Vegetables

Pepper

Potato

Pumpkin

Pumpkin Slices

Zucchini

### Mushrooms

Field Mushroom

Oyster Mushroom

Parasol Mushroom

Penny Bun

Red Pine Mushroom

### Meat

Bear Steak

Boar Steak

Carp Fillet

Chicken Steak

Cow Steak

Venison Steak

Goat Steak

Human Steak

Mackerel Fillet

Pig Steak

Rabbit Leg

Sheep Steak

Wolf Steak

Sardines

Bitterlings

### Others

Fat

Guts

## Drinks

Fronta Lemonade

Nota Cola

Spite Lemonade

Pipsi Cola

Mad Monk Kvass

Water

## Comparison Tables

### Meats Nutrition

Raw Meat (obtained by skinning either  animals or  fish)

Baked Meat (achieved by cooking raw meat directly over a Fireplace)

Boiled Meat (achieved by cooking raw meat in a Cooking Pot full of water)

Burned Meat (achieved by baking, boiling, or drying meat for too long)

Rotten Meat (achieved by allowing meat to sit around for too long unprepared)

### Produce Nutrition

Raw Fruit & Vegetables (obtained by harvesting produce from plants when they are ready)

Baked Fruit & Vegetables (achieved by roasting produce over a Fireplace using a Long Wooden Stick)

Boiled Fruit & Vegetables (achieved by boiling produce in a Cooking Pot full of water)

Burned Fruit & Vegetables (achieved by cooking produce for too long)

Rotten Fruit & Vegetables (achieved by allowing produce to sit for too long before harvesting)

### Mushrooms Nutrition

Raw Mushrooms (obtained by gathering)

Baked Mushrooms (achieved by roasting them over a Fireplace using a Long Wooden Stick)

Boiled Mushrooms (achieved by boiling them in a Cooking Pot full of water)

Burned Mushrooms (achieved by cooking them for too long)

Rotten Mushrooms (achieved by allowing raw mushrooms to sit around for too long unprepared)

### Drinks Nutrition

 Plastic Bottle | 0 kcal
 Soda Can (any)

## See Also

* Cooking
* Liquid Containers
* Survival
* Food decay