Subnautica 2 | Cooking Guide - All Recipes and Best Food

Discover the best food and recipes in Subnautica 2! Our cooking guide explains how to unlock the Digestion Adaptation and craft the ultimate Pavlova for long expeditions.

Table of Contents

How to Fix Digestive Incompatibility
What to Eat in the Early Game
Best Foods for Long Expeditions
All Food Recipes

How to Fix Digestive Incompatibility

The ocean is full of fish but you should avoid eating them when you start the game. That is because of the Digestive Incompatibility, a starting condition that blocks your character from processing alien food. Until it is cured, your only safe food source are Nutrient Blocks, found in supply crates around the early biomes.

Unlock Digestion Adaptation

Subnautica 2 Digestion Adaptation Unlocked

The cure comes from the Angel Comb, located approximately 160 meters north-northeast of the Lifepod. It is a massive glowing pink-and-purple plant. You can track it through NOA's signal about a colonist named Anita. Interact with the Angel Comb to unlock Digestion Adaptation.

Dying from thirst and dehydration? Read our guide below on how to get water:

How to Get Water

What to Eat in the Early Game

Once you have the Digestion Adaptation, here are some local fish you can feast on:

Cooked Fish

Subnautica 2 Cooking Geordie in a Fabricator

Four fish swim in the shallow waters near the Lifepod: Halfmoon, Harvestmoon, Bluemoon, and Geordie. All are easy to catch and can be cooked at the Fabricator.

Geordie is the easiest to catch among these fishes. While the other three swim in fast-moving schools, Geordies attach themselves to corals and swim slower.

All Cooked Fish	Recipe	Effect
Cooked Halfmoon	Halfmoon x1	+25 Food
Cooked Harvestmoon	Harvestmoon x1	+30 Food
Cooked Bluemoon	Bluemoon x1	+25 Food +5 Water
Cooked Geordie	Geordie x1	+30 Food
Cooked Pneuma	Pneuma x1	+40 Food
Cooked Hoverthorn	Hoverthorn x1	+25 Food
Cooked Black Hoverthorn	Black Hoverthorn x1	+30 Food
Cooked Electric Geordie	Electric Geordie x1	+30 Food

Oily Salad

If chasing fish sounds tedious, craft a Survival Multitool and harvest Fibrous Pulp from Cradle Shootroots. x2 Fibrous Pulp make one Oily Salad.

Best Foods for Long Expeditions

Recommended Foods

Food	Food	Water	HP
Pavlova	80	70	+10
Deepwing Egg Clump	40	40	-
Threemoon Temaki	60	-	+15
Coral Mash	60	-	+15

Pavlova

Pavlova is the top food in the game. It restores food, water, and health all at once, which means fewer inventory slots used on survival items and more room for loot.

Deepwing Egg Clump

Deepwing Egg Clump is another great food resource. No crafting needed, and it restores both food and water. The only downside is that you'll have to wait or track a herd of Deepwing Brooders to drop these eggs.

Threemoon Temaki

Threemoon Temaki is your best pick for long supply runs. It requires three different fish types and Fibrous Pulp, but the +60 food and +15 health in a single inventory slot will allow you to explore the deeps longer.

All Food Recipes

Food	Ingredients	Effect
Water Bottle	Water Slug x1	+40 Water
Oily Salad	Fibrous Pulp x2	+20 Food
Halfmoon Jerky	Salt x1 Halfmoon x2	+40 Food
Hoverthorn Souvlaki	Salt x1 Hoverthorn x3	+40 Food
Cherimoya Chutney	Cherimoya Rotsac x2 Sugar of Saturn x1	+40 Food
Coral Mash	Coral Shavings x3 Sugar of Saturn x1	+65 Food
Nutrient Block	Salt x1 Biofuel Block x1	+40 Food
Threemoon Temaki (Yields 3)	Halfmoon x1 Harvestmoon x1 Bluemoon x1 Fibrous Pulp x1	+60 Food +15 HP
Pavlova	Deepwing Egg Clump x1 Sugar of Saturn x1 Cherimoya Rotsac x1	+80 Food +70 Water +10 HP

Notice!	Subnautica 2 is in Early Access. Additional food recipes may be added in future updates.

Recommended Guides

Walkthrough (Early to Late-Game)	Plant Farming Guide	Cooking and Recipes Guide
Best Biomods	Best Tadpole Upgrades	Metal Farm Guide

Progression & Priorities
Early Game	Mid-Game	Late Game

Lists

All Leviathans	All Items List	Biomes & PoI List
Blackbox List	Recipe Data Cards (Blueprints)	Vehicle List
Buildings & Facilities List

Notable Items

Salt	Silver	Copper
Lead	Lucifer Rotsac	Conduit Crystals
Creature Enamel	Enameled Glass	Troilite

Guides for Beginners

Multiplayer Guide	Drinking Water Guide	How to Craft Air Tank?
Scanner Station Guide	How to Manage Your Oxygen?	Base Guide
Alien Ruins	How to Use Coordinates	Tadpole Guide
How to Get More Storage	How to Get a Rebreather	Bioscanner Guide
Night Survival Guide	How to Heal