There’s a total of 50 different provisioning ingredients in ESO, and every provisioning recipe uses between one and four ingredients. Ever since the revamp to provisioning in patch 1.6, the number of ingredients is a lot smaller, and provisioning is much more understandable and simpler as a profession. That’s still quite a lot of ingredients, especially if you’re planning on keeping all of them.

Keeping all of your ingredients in the bank or inventory takes a ton of inventory space. What makes provisioning complicated as a profession, is knowing which ingredients are worth holding onto.



Updated: 16th June, 2015.

Separate Ingredients for Foods and Drinks

There’s ingredients that are used solely for Food recipes and ingredients that are only used for Drink recipes. Some ingredients are used more often than others, but that doesn’t necessarily make these ingredients more valuable than the less-used ingredients.

It’s good to remember that for each desired provisioning consumable effect (such as a buff to Health or a buff to Magicka and Stamina Recovery), there’s three different recipes. This also means that no single ingredient becomes much more valuable than the rest, because there’s always other options to be able to cook or brew the same product, providing that you have the recipe, of course.

Finding the Ingredients

Getting provisioning ingredients in Elder Scrolls Online can sometimes be a bit hit-and-miss. Looting containers such as crates and baskets is often your best bet. Some ingredients are dropped by monsters and wildlife; it shouldn’t be a surprise that ‘Game’ can be looted from deer and some other huntable animals, for example. Rabbits drop ‘Small Game’, and so on.

The provisioning hireling perk and provisioning crafting writs are other ways of getting your hands on the ingredients.

Rare Ingredients

Of course there still are provisioning ingredients in ESO that aren’t very common and are generally difficult to get your hands on – there’s two of them, one for food recipes (Frost Mirriam), and the other for drink recipes (Bervez Juice). These rare ingredients are only used in purple quality recipes that provide a buff to all three attributes. If you want to cook or brew purple-quality stuff, there’s no way around these two ingredients.

Grocer Ingredients

Certain ingredients can be bought from Grocer vendor NPCs, located all over Tamriel. All of these ingredients cost 150 gold each, and they are only used for food recipes. Whilst grocer NPCs are probably the best source for these ingredients, you can also find them in containers and such.

Ingredient Recipe Type Used in # recipes Price Apples Food 23 150g Bananas Food 22 150g Beets Food 22 150g Carrots Food 21 150g Corn Food 23 150g Greens Food 22 150g Jazbay Grapes Food 22 150g Melon Food 22 150g Potato Food 22 150g Pumpkin Food 22 150g Radish Food 22 150g Tomato Food 21 150g

Grocer NPC Locations



Ebonheart Pact: Black-Silk-Earth in Davon’s Watch, Stonefalls. She’s at the northern part of the Market District.

Aldmeri Dominion: Samardan in Vulkhel Guard, Auridon. He’s near the docks by the merchant stall.

Daggerfall Covenant: Jafrost Cold-Eye in Betnikh. She’s at the Dockside Trading Stalls.

All Provisioning Ingredients in a Single Table

Here’s the full list of provisioning ingredients in a single table, sortable by the ingredient name, recipe type, the number of recipes they are used in and the source of the ingredients.

Ingredient Recipe Type Used in # recipes Source Acai Berry Drink 22 Loot Apples Food 23 Grocer NPCs Bananas Food 22 Grocer NPCs Barley Drink 21 Loot Beets Food 22 Grocer NPCs Bervez Juice Drink – Purple Ingredient 27 Loot Bittergreen Drink 21 Loot Carrots Food 21 Grocer NPCs Cheese Food 30 Loot Coffee Drink 22 Loot Comberry Drink 22 Loot Corn Food 23 Grocer NPCs Fish Food 21 Loot Flour Food 31 Loot Frost Mirriam Food – Purple ingredient 27 Loot, Hirelings Game Food 22 Loot Garlic Food 28 Loot Ginger Drink 29 Loot Ginkgo Drink 21 Loot Ginseng Drink 22 Loot Greens Food 22 Grocer NPCs Guarana Drink 23 Loot Honey Drink 30 Loot Isinglass Drink 31 Loot Jasmine Drink 23 Loot Jazbay Grapes Food 22 Grocer NPCs Lemon Drink 32 Loot Lotus Drink 22 Loot Melon Food 22 Grocer NPCs Metheglin Drink 28 Loot Millet Food 29 Loot Mint Drink 22 Loot Potato Food 22 Grocer NPCs Poultry Food 22 Loot Pumpkin Food 22 Grocer NPCs Radish Food 22 Grocer NPCs Red Meat Food 23 Loot Rice Drink 22 Loot Rose Drink 22 Loot Rye Drink 22 Loot Saltrice Food 32 Loot Seasoning Food 30 Loot Seaweed Drink 30 Loot Small Game Food 22 Loot Surilie Grapes Drink 22 Loot Tomato Food 21 Grocer NPCs Wheat Drink 22 Loot White Meat Food 22 Loot Yeast Drink 23 Loot Yerba Mate Drink 22 Loot

Conclusion

With so many different ingredients out there, it may not be feasible to keep all of them in your bank. You may have to choose between Food and Drink ingredients, since basically every ingredient is used in the full level range of recipes.

Personally I prefer food over beverages because I find the flat buff to stats more useful than the recovery rates. Either way, you really want to hold on to Frost Mirriam and Bervez Juice just because of their rarity and usefulness.

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