Spoiled Meat

Overview
Spoiled Meat is a food item in Ark: Survival Evolved. It can be created by letting, , , , , , , , , , or any spoil. Spoiled meat can also spoil, at which point the item will disappear from the player's inventory.

Uses
As a food item, Spoiled Meat is the very last resort; eating it will restore 3.5 points of, but decrease by 12.5 points. Because of this, Spoiled Meat is not initially worth much to the player.

However, it is a good idea to keep some lying around in a, because it has several important uses later on. For example, one Spoiled Meat can be combined with in the  to craft, which is an essential tool for taming.

Spoiled Meat also is the preferred food of the, , , , and. Feeding Spoiled Meat to them will tame it more quickly than feeding it with would while refilling the same 50 food points.

Spoil times
For more information, see Spoilage.