There are many delicious foods and dishes featured in anime, but some of them can give characters superpowers. The famous Devil Fruit from One Piece is one of these foods, but it is not the only one.
From consuming garlic to gain super-strength to eating gum to breathe underwater for several hours, these food items might be strange sources of strength but were incredibly effective when consumed. A few of them could also come with lethal side effects, such as the yokai meat potentially killing its consumers or soba noodles causing its consumers to grow whiskers.
10 Eating Devil Fruits Grants Unique Powers At A Cost (One Piece)
There are many different types of Devil Fruit featured in One Piece, and each of them can give its consumer different powers. It is possible to eat more than one, as Blackbeard did, but it's rarely possible for the consumer to survive eating two. Luffy ate the Gum-Gum fruit, enabling him to have extended elasticity in his limbs and also make it impossible for him to be killed by bullets. However, this also made Luffy permanently unable to swim, much to his ire in childhood after his mentor Shanks told him about the consequences.
9 Consuming Human Milk Can Bestow Enhanced Strength (Seikon No Qwaser)
In Seikon no Qwaser, also known as The Qwaser of Stigmata, consuming breast milk is the one sure way for the Qwasers to gain their powers. A consumer can acquire a woman's energy, known as Soma in the series, to recharge and invigorate their elemental powers. Factors that can affect the quality of a woman's Soma include whether they feel love, lust, or any other sort of affection towards the Qwaser, their physical health, development, and spiritual state. The more pure a woman is, the more potent their Soma is. Many viewers found this to be an extremely strange concept.
8 Quent Yaden Can See Through Wolves' Illusions After Drinking Too Much Alcohol (Wolf's Rain)
Once Quent Yaden, the protagonist of Wolf's Rain, is drunk enough on alcohol, he gains the unique ability to see through the wolves' illusions. However, when he is sober, it's much harder for him to do so.
Many viewers found this ability to be extremely amusing, considering all of the drunken shenanigans Quent got himself into while inebriated. However, others sympathized with him after learning that he turned to constant drinking after he came to believe that wolves were the cause of killing his wife, son, and the entire town of Kyrios during a fire.
7 The Titular Tree Of Might's Fruit Can Give Incredible Powers To Its Consumers (Dragon Ball Z)
In the film Dragon Ball Z: The Tree Of Might, the main antagonist Turles aimed to plant the titular Tree of Might to absorb the life of the planet and then convert it into a fruit which, when eaten, can give the consumer great power. Unfortunately for Goku, Turles did achieve eating one of the Tree of Might's fruits and even overpowered him until the rest of Goku's allies came to back him up.
Thankfully, the energy from the tree itself enabled Goku to destroy Turles and the tree, thus saving the earth and restoring life into it. Many viewers were relieved to see that the world was not destroyed over gaining a few powerful fruits.
6 Kinnikuman Earns His Strength By Eating Garlic (Kinnikuman)
The titular protagonist of Kinnikuman, also known as Suguru, earned his strength by eating garlic. Eating garlic enabled Suguru to grow thirty meters tall to take down his foes. Unfortunately for both Suguru and anyone else involved in the fight, he is extremely clumsy. This caused most people to fear him more than the monsters he fights since he could crash into buildings while in his giant form. This trait was both amusing and a bit worrying, considering all of the collateral damage Suguru often caused in combat.
5 Super Strength Soba Noodles Are Exactly As They Say On The Tin (Ranma 1/2)
Super Strength Soba Noodles from Ranma 1/2, also known as Super Soba, were not just a tasty dish, but could also grant whoever ate them an incredible increase in strength.
This tasty but powerful dish was a key item in the Super Soba arc. Even though it granted its consumer great strength, it also had some unfortunate side-effects, including growing whiskers and no extra control over the newfound strength. This made it extremely difficult for Akane to work with, especially considering her short temper.
4 Oxy-Gum Enabled Consumers To Breathe Underwater (Marine Boy)
In Marine Boy, Oxy-Gum allowed the titular protagonist to breathe underwater without having to rely on any scuba gear. After going through heavy activity such as underwater combat, however, he needed to replenish his oxygen with more gum or by using more common underwater breathing materials. This gum was invented by Professor Fumble, but it was also quite limited in production. No other Ocean Patrol officers used it other than Marine Boy himself.
3 Eating Carrots Gives Mina Tsukishiro Her Unique Powers (Getsumento Heiki Mina)
As a Miina from Getsumento Heiki Mina, Mina Tsukishiro has a thematic food, carrots, that she has to eat first and then evoke "Ju-Jytsu" to transform and use her powers. She can also defend herself with a high-tech machine that will take the overall image of carrots and can change into a weapon or tool of her choice.
All other Miina have their own unique, thematic foods that they have to eat to transform and use their powers, including beets, tomatoes, cherries, and blueberries.
2 Kuro Ate Yokai Meat That Gave Him Precognition And Immortality (In/Spectre)
Kuro from In/Spectre, also known as Kyokou Suiri, ate yokai meat that gave him two unique abilities: precognition, the ability to see the future, and immortality. As a child, his grandmother fed him and the rest of his cousins and siblings Kudan and Ningyo meat as part of the family's goal to have someone be able to see the future without dying. Kuro was the only survivor other than his cousin Rikka, as the rest of his cousins and siblings died after consuming the meat.
1 Rock Lee Can Use His Drunken Fist After One Sip Of Alcohol (Naruto)
Similar to how Quent gains abilities by drinking alcohol, Rock Lee can turn into a berserk warrior after drinking alcohol. This enabled him to use the Drunken Fist ability since it is only possible to do it while the user is very drunk. Since those that use this ability are intoxicated, they attack opponents with no warning and defend themselves with unconventional motions. When Rock Lee uses this ability, he also becomes extremely belligerent, adding to his opponent's confusion because of how polite he usually is.