SCUM Nutrition & Food Database
SCUM Nutrition Guide
Mastering nutrition is one of the most important aspects of long-term survival in SCUM. Every meal affects your energy, hydration, metabolism, vitamin and mineral intake, body composition, and overall performance. This guide provides a complete nutritional reference for every food item in the game, helping you build balanced diets, compare foods, and make informed survival decisions whether you're living off the land, hunting wildlife, or relying on canned supplies.
How to Use This Page
1Search by food name, category, item type, or survival tag.
2Use the category dropdown to narrow the database quickly.
3Use the item dropdown to jump straight to one food entry.
4Sort by calories, water, macros, sodium, potassium, or vitamin C.
Note: Some cooked/crafted foods may have incomplete or placeholder values depending on current wiki/game data. The page keeps those entries searchable and marks useful notes so they can be refined later.
Food Database
Category, search, and sort work together.
Fast Nutrition Strategy
| Goal | Best Direction |
|---|---|
| Hydration while traveling | Water Bottle, Watermelon, Cucumber, Orange Juice, and fruit. |
| High protein | Steaks, Chicken Meat, Rabbit Meat, Canned Tuna, Sardines, and MREs. |
| Compact calories | Nuts/seeds, fat, MREs, chocolate, chips, pasta, and rice-style ingredients. |
| Safer foraging | Known fruits, vegetables, berries, and non-poisonous mushrooms. |
| Avoid sickness | Avoid poisonous mushrooms and be careful with spoiled or risky raw foods. |