Na'vi Diet

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List of food (syuve) and drinks (naer).

This is mainly a list of basic ingredients. The Na'vi combine these ingredients to create recipes such as pies, salads, soups, pastries, casseroles, food wraps, etc.

Drinks (naer)

Relun's fruity tea

• Water (known to the Na'vi as pay)
• Juice
• Fruit smoothies
• Teas and herbal drinks
• Soups
• Milk (okup)
• Zangke
• Kxan'epe

Fruit (mauti)

Jake eating Spartan fruit

Fruit is the seed-bearing organ of a plant. It grows abundantly on Pandora and is foraged by every known clan.

• Banana fruits are, as the name suggests, fruits. They grow high on push fruit trees, and rarely can be found uneaten by animals on the ground.
• Bean Pod 'potatoes' are a food.
• Blaze Fruit is highly starchy and extremely pungent. It requires cooking to consume.
• Dawn Fruit, a close relative of Shell Fruit, is a fruit with pink, slightly sour flesh. The shell needs to be broken by force to collect the flesh.
• Fortune's Fruit has firm, watery flesh that is extremely sweet when ripe. The seeds, which are suspended in the flesh, deliver a burning sensation when chewed.
• Harpoon Berry
• Harvesting fruits are various fruits are gathered by the Na'vi and eaten or stored for later consumption.
• Heartlands Spineberry Fruit is a multi-fruit. The flesh is sweet and sticky and can be eaten raw or cooked.
• Hidden Fruit is a sweet, luscious fruit.
• Melon Tree fruit is edible.
• Pale Pod Fruit has unusually sweet and syrupy flesh. It is a pale variant of the pod fruit.
• Plank Epiphyte Fruit
• Pod Fruit has mildly sweet pulp. It is cooked and eaten in many formats and is traditionally used to make teas and cordials. It is a staple food of the Zeswa Clan.
• Shell Fruit has fibrous, segmented orange flesh encased in a tough, bark-like shell.
• Shelter Fruit is an edible fruit harvested from the Leopard Palm. It tastes like a buttery orange.
• Spartan fruit is seen being eaten by Jake.
• Spineberry Fruit is a multi-fruit. The flesh is sweet and sticky and can be eaten raw or cooked.
• Yovo Fruit is an edible fruit. It can be grilled covered in Sari seeds, a dish made by Relun, the Aranahe cook.

Vegetables (fkxen)

A vegetable stew

• Bladder polyps are eaten by the Na’vi for their juicy salty taste, which is somewhat like a pickle.
• Crimson Rock Orchid leaves
• Dapophet leaves that are filled with water are collected and used by the Na'vi to drink from during their travels.
• Delta tree leaves and roots. The Na'vi have learned to strip off the lower leaf epidermis, which contains the poison glands, and harvest the tasty insides of the leaves. Roots that are non-poisonous are peeled, grounded up, and used for flour in cooking.
• Panopyra accumulate liquid caught in the plant's body. The Na'vi collect this and use it for a nutritious and healing drink.
• Puffball tree leaves taste salty. Na'vi collect them to sustain their salt needs, and also use them to feed animals.
• Rock Orchid leaves have a fleshy interior which are consumed for their nourishing properties.
• Spartan leaves are edible and are also used for making mats and food wraps. Its fruit is also edible.
• Spiny whips eject small finger-shaped pieces of tissue, which can be collected and eaten.
• Sunflower Gigantus roots are very bitter, but can be cooked and eaten.

Seeds (rina’) and Nuts (tskxemauti)

• Banshee of paradise seeds are attached on the stem opposite to the direction the plant is pointing, making it easy for the Na'vi to harvest them. Although the plant itself is deadly and toxic, the seeds are edible.
• Canyon Eyethorn seeds
• Chandelier Bromeliad seeds
• Cloud Spitter seeds are a staple food of the Zeswa.
• Cycad seeds are soaked to remove nerve toxins and ground up to use as flour.
• Episoth seeds are edible and quite delicious.
• Eyethorn seeds are waxy to the touch. They can be consumed raw or cooked.
• Feather Blade seeds are tall, pointed, and with papery skin. It is extremely palatable to the Na'vi, who use the large and starchy nut in several cooking applications. Heartlands Feather Blade seeds are a subspecies growing in the Heart of the Plains.
• Fire Seeds are, according to their Hunter's Guide entry, inedible to the Na'vi, but the game allows the player to cook with the seed. Heartlands Fire Seeds and Pale Fire Seeds are also able to be cooked and eaten.
• Hermit bud seeds are good for proteins and oil. They are also grounded up to make flour.
• Lilac Cloud Spitter seeds
• Lionberry seeds are used for food and are good source of protein.
• Sari seeds are eaten by both Na'vi and animals. It has been used as a coating on grilled Yovo fruit.
• Thistle Bud seeds are large and edible and used as a food staple for the Na'vi. Animals also eat the seeds.

Nectar (tsmi) and Honey

Various insects collect sap and nectar which they store in waxy constructions in their nests. These nectar combs are prized by Na'vi for use in cooking.

• Canyon Ant Hive nectar
• Direhorse Pitcher Plants produce sweet nectar that is edible not only by direhorses, but also by Na'vi.
• Forest Hive nectar is light in color, thin in texture, and pleasantly floral in both flavor and scent.
• Heartlands Direhorse Pitcher Plant
• Heartlands Stagfly Ant Hive nectar
• Pale Plains Hive nectar is extremely clear.
• Plains Hive nectar is dark, rich, and often crystallized in the comb.
• Ripper Wasp Hives produce a small quantity of honey which is carefully harvested by Na'vi foragers. It is used in cooking a variety of recipes and sometimes, as a rare treat, left to crystallize in a dried flower head, then eaten on its own.
• Stagfly Ant nectar
• Swamp Hive nectar is exceptionally sticky and said to have a bitter-edged sweetness when cooked.

Herbs and Spices (unyor)

• Blistering Root, though normally poisonous, can be used sparingly as a seasoning after being sun dried and finely ground. Its spice is called "stinging spice" and has a very sharp, fiery taste and a numbing effect on the lips and tongue. Many Na'vi find this flavor extremely unpalatable.
• Earthy Herbs have a rich and distinct flavor, bringing a mushroom-like umami to any dish they are added to. They are made from the Delta Tree.
• Fiery Herbs have a kick to them, and will impart any food with a degree of fire to it. They are made from the Spartan.
• Fragrant Herbs are particularly aromatic herbs that exude an appetizing fragrance. They are made from the Spiny Whip.
• Mild Herbs have a subtle sort of flavor to them, giving an added dimension and a touch of finesse to the dish they are added to. They are made from the Bladder Polyp.
• Shadow Spurs have seeds that can be ground into spices.
• Spice Herb

Fungi (spxam)

A cooked ovumshroom

Mushrooms are the fruiting head of a fungus. They grow across Pandora and are used by the Na'vi in many ways, primarily as food but often as medicine.

• Banquet Mushrooms have a filling, savory flavor.
• Crimson Mushroom
• Dado Shroom
• Pale Vineshroom
• Radar Mushroom
• Rockface Mushroom is a fibrous, gritty textured mushroom that is nonetheless extremely nutritious.
• Sage Mushrooms are considered a tasty, meat-textured mushroom.
• Speckled Mushroom flesh, though stringy, has an unexpectedly sweet, mellow flavor when fermented over several months and softened enough to chew.
• Symbiotic fungus on puffers is quite delicious and is used by the Na'vi for food. They are careful not to harvest too much off one plant in order to avoid destroying the equilibrium between plant and fungus required to maintain the health of both.
• Ovumshroom can be consumed plain after being cooked, and are also used as a common ingredient in many Na'vi dishes.
• Vineshrooms have a watery consistency and are often dried before cooking.

Animals (tsngan)

The Na'vi will sometimes hunt animals. As part of their ways, they try to minimize meat eating and only do so for survival purposes.

Fatty Meat

• Arrow Deer
• Bladehead
• Canyon Chameleon Crawler
• Canyon Meer Deer
• Canyon Whipfang Crawler
• Chameleon Crawler
• Hammerhead Titanothere
• Heartlands Arrow Deer
• Heartlands Bladehead
• Heartlands Colossus
• Hexapede
• Meer Deer
• Scarab Crawler
• Soundblast Colossus
• Stone Rapids Scarab Crawler
• Sturmbeest
• Whipfang Crawler

Lean Meat

• Bone Helm Rhino
• Boulderlands Thanator
• Burrowing Echo Stalker
• Canyon Bone Helm Rhino
• Canyon Stormglider
• Chiroptera
• Cloaked Panther
• Echo Stalker
• Feathered Grasslands Thanator
• Heartlands Cloaked Panther
• Heartlands Stormglider
• Kinglor Wetlands Thanator
• Stormglider
• Petrified Forest Thanator
• Thanator
• Viperwolf
• White Moss Forest Thanator

Fish (payoang)

• Buoyfish have a sweet, yet meaty flavor. The flavor varies based on which region the fish is from because of their differing diets.
• Canyon Octofin Fish
• Flat Skate Fish, when prepared correctly, is considered a delicacy in Metkayina cuisine, but because of the fish's speed, it is quite hard to catch.
• Mudcrawler Fish
• Octofin Fish

Insects (hì’ang) and Invertebrates

Jake eating teylu

• Coronet Snail slime is the main ingredient in a sweet ceremonial drink. The slime is fermented over the course of several months to create the beverage.
• Teylu are seen being eaten by Neytiri and Jake. It is similar to a jumbo shrimp, being a grub, and is slightly sweet. Teylu is usually steamed, but the Na'vi also cook them with vegetables on a stick over an open fire, similar to Terran shish kebab. Horned Teylu are also eaten. All species of teylu are coveted for their abundance and protein.

Eggs (loi)

Most Na'vi clans forage eggs, primarily for food, ensuring they take only one egg from a nest so that the species may still thrive.

• Canyon Kite Manta Eggs are mild in flavor, and often used as a binding agent in Na'vi recipes.
• Canyon Stormglider Eggs
• Chiroptera Eggs have an unusual aroma.
• Coronis Eggs
• Kite Manta Eggs
• Lamp Lizard Eggs
• Moonscarab Eggs
• Pale Coronis Eggs
• Stormglider Eggs
• Yoten Eggs have especially rich yolk.

Dairy (okupsyu)

• Zakru milk is consumed by the Zeswa Clan in variety of forms, including as a drink, cheese and zangke, a fermented drink made with zakru milk and fiery herbs.

Plant Milk

Plant milks are crafted by the Kame'tire and Zeswa.

• Creamy Plant Milk has a soft and velvety texture, and adds a light creaminess to dishes.
• Sweet Plant Milk has a delicious, practically syrupy flavor to it.
• Tangy Plant Milk gives a zesty flavor to any dish it is added to.

Other

Though not regularly part of a typical Na'vi diet, it appears Na'vi can eat at least some human foods without ill effects.

• RDA rations in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora are eaten by the main character.
• In the Frontiers of Pandora quest The Buried Treasure, an Aranahe woman consumes chocolate.
• Bellsprig spores are said to taste fresh.
• Sunrise Lantern Dew is sweet and tacky and is commonly gathered by the Na'vi. It can be eaten raw, or used for cooking a number of dishes. It is considered a delicious treat by the omnivorous banshee.

See Also

• Standard Dishes
• Specialty Dishes

References

• James Cameron's Avatar: The Game - Ingame Pandorapedia articles on: Banshee of Paradise, Bladder Polyps, Hermit Bud, Lionberry, Puffer.
• James Cameron's Avatar: An Activist Survival Guide - articles on: Banana Fruit, Puffball Tree, Cycad, Dapophet, Episoth, Harvesting Fruit and Teylu.
• Old Pandorapedia.com - Magellum triangulare, Pandargonium cyanellum, Kuchenium polyphyllum and Phytotinium poydactylum articles
• James Cameron's Avatar: The Game NDS
• Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - Journal articles
• Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Hunter's Guide