Meals in Monster Hunter Wilds

A meal raises your health gauge by 50 and your stamina gauge to its maximum 150, adds attack, defense or elemental resistance, and gives meal skills. The boosts and the skills last until the meal runs out; eating again replaces the old meal and restarts the timer, and the timer stands still in camps, towns, the Grand Hub and the tent.

At the Portable BBQ Grill (from a Ration in the pouch, or at a tent) you pick a ration type and optionally one additional ingredient and one finishing touch. Each ingredient brings its own skill plus one random skill, so a grilled meal carries up to four. A meal invitation in a settlement or a Grand Hub Canteen voucher gives the bigger stat boosts and three fixed skills plus two random ones.

The optimizer counts a meal's attack after the percentage bonuses: the meal attack field under Conditions (+5 for an invitation or Canteen meal, +2 for grilled meat).

What a meal gives

Grill ingredients and their skills

Settlement and Canteen meals

Random skills

Meal skills (37)

Skill	In game	In numbers	From
Balanced Meal	Prevents you from getting knocked on your butt.	No tripping onto your butt	Random; Flamefete Barbecue Meal
Black Belt Meal (Hi)	Greatly reduces stamina depletion when performing stamina-draining moves such as evading, etc.	Constitution +3 levels	Delishroom
Black Belt Meal (Lo)	Reduces stamina depletion when performing stamina-draining moves such as evading, etc.	Constitution +2 levels	Droolshroom; random from premium ingredients
Break-time Meal	Grants a temporary attack boost when you use the Sit gesture for a while.	Sit (gesture) for 5 seconds: attack +15 for 30 seconds	Random; Dreamspell Tea Time Stand
Bulldozer Meal	Increases attack power when you strike right after an attack is deflected.	After a bounce: attack ×1.05 for 5 seconds	Random
Caprice Meal (Hi)	Repeatedly activates a large temporary attack boost at random intervals.	Attack +15 for 10 seconds Again every 3, 4 or 5 minutes (about one third each)	Airy Egg; Colorful Suja Cuisine
Caprice Meal (Lo)	Repeatedly activates a temporary attack boost at random intervals.	Attack +7 for 10 seconds Again every 3, 4 or 5 minutes (about one third each)	Fluffy Egg; random from premium ingredients
Capture Pro Meal	Increases the rewards you receive for captures.	More capture rewards	Fresh Sild Cuisine; random on festival meals
Carver Meal	Allows you to carve an additional one or two times.	One extra carve, with a 50% chance of a second	Hot Azuz Cuisine; random on festival meals
Defender Meal (Hi)	Often decreases damage taken.	25% chance per hit to take ×0.7 damage	Sharp Kunafa Cheese; Springy Kunafa Cuisine; Blossomdance Sushi Meal
Defender Meal (Lo)	Sometimes decreases damage taken.	12.5% chance per hit to take ×0.7 damage	Kunafa Cheese; random on some festival meals
Escape Artist Meal	Decreases stamina depletion when fleeing from large monsters.	Stamina use ×0.5 while fleeing from large monsters	Random
Exploiter Meal	Increases the rewards you receive for fully exploiting a wound.	40% chance of an extra reward when you destroy a wound	Colorful Suja Cuisine; random on festival meals
Extra Noodles Meal	The first two food or drink items used in a quest can be used an extra time.	The first 2 food or drink items you use in a quest are not used up	ICHIRAN ramens (collaboration)
Fisher Meal	Increases the likelihood that fish will bite when fishing.	Fish bite more readily	Random
Fortune Hunter Meal	Increases the amount of zenny received at the end of a quest.	More zenny at the end of a quest	Random; Lumenhymn Ceremonial Platter
Gatherer Meal	Sometimes increases the number of resources per gather of bones, ore, and other gatherable items.	30% chance of one extra item per gather	Truffle Du Conga; Blossomdance Sushi Meal
Hardy Meal	Prevents damage and ailments from the environment.	No damage or ailments from the environment	Random
Immunizer Meal	Lessens the effects of various ailments.	Ailment resistance +1 level	Wild Herb; Lumenhymn Ceremonial Platter
Insurance Meal	Prevents your group from being penalized the first time a member faints.	The first faint of the quest does not count toward the faint limit	Every settlement / Canteen meal, Dreamspell and Lumenhymn meals; never random
Iron Carver Meal	Prevents knockbacks from attacks while carving.	No knockback from hits while carving	Random
Lucky Meal	Sometimes increases the number of reward items received at the end of a quest.	Sometimes more quest reward items	Springy Kunafa Cuisine; random on festival meals
Medic Meal	Increases the amount of health recovered when healing.	Recovery Up +1 level	Eastern Honey; Dreamspell Tea Time Stand
Moxie Meal (Hi)	Prevents fainting one time and heals you when damage taken exceeds your remaining health.	Once: a hit that would make you faint leaves you alive instead Then heals 40	Specialty Sild Garlic; Fresh Sild Cuisine; Flamefete Barbecue Meal
Moxie Meal (Lo)	Prevents fainting one time when damage taken exceeds your remaining health.	Once: a hit that would make you faint leaves you alive instead	Sild Garlic; random from premium ingredients
Piping-Hot Meal	Greatly increases attack when health is dangerously low.	Attack ×1.35 while health is at 10 or below	Random
Rider Meal	Makes it easier to mount monsters.	Mount buildup ×1.25	Random
Riser Meal	Extends the invulnerability period when getting up.	0.5 seconds more invulnerability when getting up	Random; Blossomdance Sushi Meal
Sizzling Meal	Negates the effects of hot or cold conditions and increases defense while in such areas.	No Hot or Cool Drink needed Defense +5 in hot or cold areas	Monster Chili; ICHIRAN ramens
Specialist Meal	Increases the potency of abnormal status attacks.	Status buildup up	Wild Seed Oil
Spicy Red Meal (Attack)	Using a food or drink item temporarily boosts Focus Strike wound destruction damage and part damage.	After using a food or drink item: more Focus Strike wound and part damage for 30 seconds	Classic Tonkotsu Ramen (ICHIRAN collaboration)
Spicy Red Meal (Energy)	Using a food or drink item temporarily boosts stamina recovery speed.	After using a food or drink item: faster stamina recovery for 60 seconds	100% Tonkotsu-Free Ramen (ICHIRAN collaboration)
Swimmer Meal	Increases attack when wet.	Attack +3 while wet	Jeweled Mullet Roe; Flamefete Barbecue Meal
Top Cat Meal	Powers up Palico attack and defense.	Palico attack and defense up one level	Random
Trainer Meal	Speeds up Palico growth.	Faster Palico growth	Random
Tumbler Meal (Hi)	Extends the invulnerability period when evading.	Evade Window +3 levels	Turbid Shrimp; Hot Azuz Cuisine
Tumbler Meal (Lo)	Slightly extends the invulnerability period when evading.	Evade Window +2 levels	Mud Shrimp; random from premium ingredients

• Whether a meal survives fainting in Wilds: no source found.
• A log message probably appears 5 minutes before the meal runs out (_MealEffectEndingLogTime 300).
• Whether a random roll can repeat a skill the meal already has is not in the data.

Source: Game data (MealData, FoodData, MealDataLifeArea, MealDataLobby, MealSkillRandomTable, PlayerMealSkillParam) and game8 482549 / 504746 for the post-1.021 durations; monsterhunterwiki Meals_(MHWilds).