Meat

Meat is one of World of Warcraft's six main types of food. Meat in WoW represents the edible flesh of beasts and similar animals. The edible flesh of fully aquatic animals falls under fish.

Meat items come in two types: consumables and ingredients. Consumable meat can be eaten by player characters and certain hunter pets; when eaten by a player character, consumable meat restores health and (depending on the item) can grant a well fed buff. Meat ingredients are a type of trade good and cannot be eaten by player characters without first being turned into consumables through cooking. Most meat-eating hunter pets can eat meat ingredients.

Some items have meat-themed names and visuals, but do not actually function as meat. These are often quest items such as Fresh Crawler Meat or Basilisk Meat. There are also two maces, purchasable with Darkmoon Faire Tickets, that resemble legs of meat: Last Month's Mutton and Last Year's Mutton.

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade introduced raw meat as a food type that could be eaten by dragonhawks, nether rays, ravagers, and serpents. Raw meat was separate from uncooked meat ingredients; it included items like Squashed Rabbit Carcass and Partially Digested Meat, allowing hunters to make use of them despite their usual status as vendor trash.

Raw meat as a food type was removed in Patch 3.0.2, and pets will no longer eat these items.

• Player characters can eat meat to recover health. Many cooked meat items also provide a well fed buff.
• Hunters can feed meat to certain pets; some of the more popular pets eat only meat.
• Many meat items are used as ingredients for foods that can be created by cooking.

• Looted from dead humanoid mobs.
• Looted from chests.
• Purchased from meat vendors.
• Created by cooking.
• Occasionally received as quest rewards.
• Can be purchased on the auction house.

• Commonly looted from animal mobs, especially beasts.
• Can be purchased cheaply on the auction house.