Food

Food
Food artwork from Brawl.
Universe	Super Smash Bros.
Appears in	SSBM SSBB SSB4
Item class	Damage Recovering

Food (たべもの, Food) is an item that, when used, recovers a small amount of the user's damage. Although they often spawn in groups from Party Balls, the items can spawn on their own, and some items of food are unique to specific stages.

Origins

The use of food as an item in video games is not uncommon, and some Nintendo games also featured the use of fruit in such a way. Yoshi's Story, for instance, required the titular character to eat thirty fruits within a level to complete it; in these cases, the fruit also recovered some of his health. The EarthBound series also featured the use of both everyday and esoteric foods as recovery items. Food that restored the player's health also appeared in Kirby Super Star as well as many other Kirby series games, acting as a common, yet low-powered method to recovery Kirby's health; the use of food in the series is especially relevant to the item's appearance in the Super Smash Bros. series, as items featured in Melee would later reappear in Kirby Air Ride as a common, low-health recovery food.

Operation

As an item

Food commonly spawns on stages in the games, and large bundles of food are frequently dispensed from the Party Ball. Despite being a relatively common item, however, food itself does not recover significant amounts of damage; the strongest food items recover only 9-to-12% of the player's health, with a majority often recovering below 6%.

In Brawl, there is a special "gulp" sound effect for when characters consume food that happens to be a liquid, like the coffee or orange tonic items.

As a stage feature

Three stages in the series, Green Greens, the Summit, and Tortimer's Island, dispense unique foods; Green Greens features Apples, the Summit features Vegetables from the original Ice Climber game (complete with sound effects from the game when consumed), and Tortimer's Island features some tropical fruits like lychees. In the case of Green Greens, some of the apples dropped by Whispy Woods will instead take the form of items that can be thrown at opponents; if items are turned off via the Item Switch, these apples will always be the type that can be thrown. If items are disabled on The Summit, the Vegetables will never spawn; it is unknown if this is the case for Tortimer's Island.

As a Pokémon item

The Pokémon Chansey in Melee can potentially drop Eggs as a part of Softboiled; these Eggs can potentially heal any players that pick up the items, though like the food items on stages, they will all be throwable if food is disabled.

In individual attacks

Two characters, Peach and Diddy Kong, can spawn Food in Brawl; Peach can summon a variety of peaches as part of her Peach Blossom Final Smash, while Diddy Kong's Peanut Popgun and Rocketbarrel Barrage can potentially spawn shelled peanuts.

"Eating While Reclining"

Snake, eating while reclining.

Brawl added a technique called Eating While Reclining (倒れアイテム食べ Taore aitemu tabe, Lying and eating items or DownEatU and DownEatD internally in Brawl files, depending on which side the character is lying). If a character lands hard by some food, the player can press A to grab and eat the food without needing to get up first. This technique, however, has little practical use, and it can be seen as a nerf, as knocked-down players will be unable to use their getup attack if they land near food.

List

Food Items

Food	Description	Healing Power
Sushi Platter	Tray w/ large green leaf & various sushi	8%
Dango	Three spheres of pink, white, and green	3%
Cheese	Yellow-orange wedge shape	4%
Grapes	Purple triangular cluster	3%
Donut	Donut shaped, half red-brown, half yellow	4%
Gyuudon Beef Bowl	White bowl, brown filled, with bits of red(pickled ginger)	7%
Watermelon	Light/dark green striped circle	6%
Ice Cream	Beige cone with vanilla ice cream (SSBM) and strawberry ice cream (SSBB)	3%
Pizza	Brown/yellow/orange ellipse shape	8%
Melon	Green circle w/ stem that forks in 2 directions	6%
Bananas	Bunch of yellow bananas (3)	5%
Fried Rice	White/brown dish, white/green/yellow rice	7%
Onigiri	White triangle(rice) w/ black square(seaweed)	6%
Orange	Orange circle	4%
Rice Lunch Tray	Square container of rice, drink(tea), condiments, and chopsticks	5%
Hamburger	Sesame seed bun w/ cheese, lettuce, tomato, and meat	6%
Turkey	Whole turkey on plate w/ greens	7%
Curry Rice	White plate, rice on one side and brown sauce on other, w/ cubed meat/potatoes	7%
Cup of Coffee/Tea	White cup/saucer, coffee/tea	2%
Milk	Blue/white milk carton	5%
Chicken Drumstick	A chicken leg wrapped with a piece of paper with blue/red strips	12%
Spaghetti	White bowl, pasta, tomato sauce	6%
Omelette	White plate, beige roll, red sauce, greens	7%
Strawberry	Red triangle with green steam/leaves	1%
Shiitake Mushroom	Dark brown cap with light stem	5%
Juice	Wine glass with yellow liquid	3%
Chashu Ramen	White/red bowl with yellow(noodles), green(vegetables), and white/red pieces of chashu meat	7%
Apple	Red circle with stem	5%
Unagi Rice/Chocolate	Rectangular pan with brown filling	9%
Peach	Pink circle	5% (SSBB), 20% (SSB4)
Peanut	A peeled peanut	4%

Trophies

The Food item appears as a trophy in both Super Smash Bros. Melee and Brawl.

Melee description

Melee trophy

These food items will restore your health when you eat them. There are 28 different types of food, and the nutritional value and yumminess quotient differs slightly with each type. Party Balls tend to hold the largest amount of food items. You may be vulnerable when gorging yourself, but you do need to eat to survive.

• Super Smash Bros. Melee 12/01

Brawl description

Brawl trophy

Treats that decrease your damage. The nutritional value of each food, and how much damage it heals, is carefully measured. What's better for you, sushi or a donut? Party Balls contain a lot of food, so if you eat it all yourself, you can really lower your damage. There may be times when you laugh and walk away from food, and times when you watch someone else eating and cry.

SSB4 description

Pick up food and eat it to restore health. There are 28 kinds of food in all, including bread, which heals 10 damage, roast chicken, which heals 15, and so on. The fancier the food, the more damage it will heal. Keep an eye out for Party Balls-- they may drop a whole buffet for you to nom!

Gallery

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  Food in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Trivia

• Snake is the only character who makes unique sounds whenever he consumes food or similar items, such as the Maxim Tomato and even the Superspicy Curry. This references what Naked Snake would do upon consuming foodstuff in Metal Gear Solid 3.