Wheat grows on farms across Skyrim and is one of the simplest healing ingredients you’ll find: Restore Health and Fortify Health on a single stalk. Farmers will even buy it from you for 5 gold each, and with Hearthfire it becomes flour for baking.
Alchemy effects
The effects are listed in the order you discover them by eating the ingredient or using it in a potion. Two ingredients make a potion when they share at least one effect.
- Restore Health – instantly restores lost Health. Also on: Blisterwort, Blue Dartwing, Blue Mountain Flower, Butterfly Wing, Charred Skeever Hide, Daedra Heart, Eye of Sabre Cat, Imp Stool, Rock Warbler Egg, Swamp Fungal Pod.
- Fortify Health – raises your maximum Health for a while. Also on: Bear Claws, Blue Mountain Flower, Giant’s Toe, Glowing Mushroom, Hanging Moss.
- Damage Stamina Regen – a poison effect that slows the target’s Stamina regeneration for a short time. Also on: Creep Cluster, Daedra Heart, Frost Mirriam, Giant’s Toe, Histcarp, Juniper Berries, Large Antlers, Silverside Perch, Skeever Tail.
- Lingering Damage Magicka – a poison effect that drains the target’s Magicka over time. Also on: Hagraven Claw, Purple Mountain Flower, Swamp Fungal Pod, Torchbug Thorax.
Tips and trivia
Orgnar’s tip: Blisterwort and Wheat make a healing potion. Wheat shares Fortify Health with Giant’s Toe. Farmers such as Alfhild Battle-Born and Bolfrida Brandy-Mug buy it for 5 gold. With Hearthfire, three wheat make a sack of flour at a grain mill.
Values from the Skyrim game files (Skyrim.esm): base value 5 gold, weight 0.1.