When taking care of your Digimon, it’s important to verify they get plenty of rest, opportunities to visit the bathroom, and lots of food to keep them healthy. Food plays a big part inDigimon World: Next Order, not just there to satisfy the hunger pangs, but also to help boost your Digimon’s stat growth.

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Digimon World: Next Order ginseng food menu

Making sense of all the different food and drink is a tall order given that each item has a unique effect on your Digimon. There are plenty of buffs, stat increases, and even food that will alter the weight of your monster friend. Don’t start your training session without this knowledge.

Vegetables

Vegetables can be found in all areas of the open world outside Floatia and are perfect for training sessions. The majority of the veggies available will bestow bonuses to your training roulette wheel, giving you 1.25x the XP from the training.

TRAINING: Improves MP and STR

Digimon World: Next Order food menu showing Meat

TRAINING: Improves HP and SPD

TRAINING: Improves STA and WIS

Digimon World: Next Order Shiki standing next to a Mushroom

TRAINING: Slightly improves HP, MP, and STR

Lowers Digimon weight by 1

Digimon World: Next Order feeding a Nut to Digimon

TRAINING: Slightly improves STR, STA, and WIS

Increases Digimon weight by 1

Digimon World: Next Order showing digital ion-water

TRAINING: Slightly improves HP, WIS, and SPD

Reduces Digimon weight by 2. Reduces discipline

Digimon World: Next Order fishing icon

TRAINING: Greatly improves MP and WIS.

MP +20, WIS +15

Reduces Digimon weight by 5. Reduces discipline

Meat

Meat can be grown on farms or won from battles and is generally used to fill up your Digimon, or alter their weight. It’s an ideal food for improving or stabilising a Digimon’s mood. The rarer and more valuable meat will give a nice boost to your stats, too.

Raises Digimon weight by 1

Improves mood

Raises Digimon weight by 3

Raises Digimon weight by 2

Improves mood, and strengthens bond

Increases STR stat +3

Increases HP stat +10

Happiness is worse

Increases STR stat +5

Improves mood, strengthens bond

Increases MP stat +10, STR stat +2

Increases HP +30, MP +10, STR +3, STA +3, WIS +1, SPD +1

Fungi

Another weight-altering food is the fungi group, which oddly features coriander and scratchy grass, too. Many of the fungi foodstuffs impact the stats, mood, and general well-being of a Digimon.

Reduces Digimon weight by 1

Reduces Digimon weight by 3

Increases MP + 50, SPD +2

Unlucky Mushroom

Reduces Digimon weight by 2

Increases MP +50, STR +1, STA +1, WIS +1, SPD +1

Inflicts sickness

Reduces Digimon weight by1

Improves happiness

Worsens mood

Nuts

Nuts are an odd group as each nut has the same effect; to improve Digifriend values and reduce discipline. Of course, they still go some way to filling the Digimon’s belly, too.

Reduces discipline

Drink

Available from vending machines and battles, drinks focus on stat increases and healing. If you find yourself with money to burn, it’s worth grabbing plenty of drinks to give your Digimon’s stats a steady increase.

Recovers 500MP

Recovers 500HP

Recovers 1000HP, 1000MP

Extends Digimon’s life

Fish

Once you have a fishing rod, you’ll be able to stop at many of the bodies of water throughout the world and cast a line. Fishing relies on a button press once the ‘Exclamation Icon’ lights up. Better bait will attract rarer fish, which can then be fed to your Digimon. You’re looking at lots of stat boosts here, particularly for the super rare fish.

All fish improve both Digimon mood and increase the value of Digifriend

Digituna

Increases HP +100, MP +100, STR +10, STA +10, WIS +5, SPD +5