Spoiler warning! There are some mild spoilers ahead – turn back now if you’re not familiar with the books…

If you have ever asked yourself what witches and wizards eat, we’re happy to tell you they often enjoy the same food as their Muggle counterparts – Harry was fond of a treacle tart. Yet, there are a few differences… especially when it comes to sweet treats and drinks. We’ve broken it down for you…

Food

Freshwater Plimpies
Let’s start with one of the savoury… delicacies of the wizarding world. Plimpies are rotund, spherical fish, Unlike Muggle fish, they have long legs with webbed feet. They might not sound particularly appetising – and we don’t know how many witches and wizards counted them as part of their regular diet. However, we do know that they were enjoyed by the rather eccentric Lovegoods.

Cauldron Cake
This cake is readily available in the wizarding world. Although they were never really described in detail (we’re still curious to know what flavour they are), we imagine them to be cauldron shaped. They do seem to be popular – Harry often bought a bunch on Hogwarts Express journeys.

Pumpkin Pasty
Pasties are a common food in the Muggle world particularly here in Britain. Originating in Cornwall, they are semi-circular, savoury pastries that are typically filled with meat and vegetables – yummy! Witches and wizards seem to have their own spin on the humble pasty. While we imagine that the pastry base is the same, the pumpkin filling seems unique to the magical world.

Sweets

Acid Pops
These lollipops are about as delicious as they sound… not at all. Extremely acidic, they can even melt flesh. A seven-year-old Ron Weasley discovered this when one burnt a hole right through his tongue. His brother, Fred, thought it was a hilarious joke. Their mother? Well, safe to say Fred felt the full wrath of Mrs Weasley.

Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavour Beans
Watch out for these innocent looking sweets – you never know what flavour you will be lucky, or unlucky, enough to get next. These jellybeans might look like their Muggle counterparts – but we don’t think you will find many earwax or vomit flavoured beans outside of the magical world.

Blood-flavoured lollipop
You can find this interesting food item in Honeydukes, and they do exactly what they say on the tin – they are lollies that taste like blood. Hermione theorised that they were probably for the famous sweet shop’s vampire clientele… and we’re inclined to agree.

Chocolate Cauldron
The sound of cauldron-shaped chocolates with a Firewhisky filling make our mouths water. Ron’s did too – he scoffed down a box on his birthday Unfortunately, that particular batch had been laced with a Love Potion…

Chocolate Frog
Possibly the most iconic of wizarding sweets – these chocolates are delightfully frog-shaped. In the films, they also have a spring, or hop, in their step. The best bit about a Chocolate Frog though? The card. Each frog contains a card about a famous witch or wizard. Ron had over five hundred of these in his collection – though we wonder if he ever managed to find Agrippa.

Cockroach Clusters
With a name containing the word cockroach, who on earth would find this wizarding sweet appealing? Somebody must do, as they are sold in Honeydukes. We don’t quite know what is in them – though we can make a guess that it involves creepy crawlies. We do know that they slightly resemble peanuts because of Ron’s temptation to trick Fred into eating them.

Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum
Part of the Special Effects section in Honeydukes, Droobles is bubble-gum with an edge. The bluebell-coloured bubbles that you blow with this are rather reluctant to be popped and will hang around for days.

Edible Dark Mark
An ominous skull with a protruding snake, the Dark Mark was Lord Voldemort’s sign… and it never meant anything good – whether it was branded onto his followers, the Death Eaters, or cast into the sky after an attack had taken place. The edible version? Well, that wasn’t pleasant either. Sold at Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes, it was a trick sweet designed to make anyone sick… yuck!

Exploding Bonbons
These tasty treats are only ever mentioned in passing but we guess they are a bonbon sweet with a habit of going bang!

Fainting Fancies
Part of Fred and George’s iconic Skiving Snackboxes, we don’t know what these tasted like. We do know that they would knock you out like you’d been ‘hit over the head with an invisible mallet’ though.

Fever Fudge
Who doesn’t love yummy fudge? It’s a taste sensation! However, as another Skiving Snackbox creation of Fred and George’s, this one was more trick than treat. Those who ate this sweet could expect a horrible fever.

Fizzing Whizzbees
These sherbet balls are as yummy as they are fun. Whilst you are eating one, you’ll find yourself on cloud nine. Well, not quite… but you will be levitating a few inches off the ground!

Fudge Flies
Fudge? Yes please. Flies? No thanks. Hopefully these were just fudge in the shape of flies. However, they were a favourite of Ron’s rat, Scabbers… so we can’t rule out that they might actually contain a few winged insects.

Hiccough Sweets
They might sound like another Fred and George invention, but these sweets are actually a product from Zonko’s Joke Shop. When consumed, we imagine they cause some spectacular hiccoughing.

Ice Mice
This rather cool sweet causes your teeth to chatter and squeak! One of Honeydukes finest, you can spot it in the Special Effects section of their shop.

Jelly Slugs
Rather straightforward, these are slug-shaped jelly sweets! They seemed to be a favourite at Honeydukes – needing to be restocked after visiting Hogwarts students nearly cleaned them out.

Liquorice Wand
Part of the selection from the Hogwarts Express trolley, these liquorice sweets are in the shape of wands. Liquorice can be rather divisive though. Horace Slughorn thought the trolley favoured them a bit too much – they played havoc with his digestive system!

Nosebleed Nougat
If nougat is the same in both the Muggle and magical world, then it is a chewy and delicious sweet. However, this nougat was a Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes product that would leave you with a bleeding nose. While there were a few struggles during the testing phase – it ultimately proved to be the most popular Skiving Snackbox selection.

Pepper Imps
A sweet that makes you breathe fire? We’re sold! This Honeydukes sweet that makes you smoke at the mouth is found in the Special Effects section.

Peppermint Toad
Another Honeydukes classic, these peppermint creams are shaped like toads. Once eaten, they like to have a hopping good time – leaping about in your tummy just like a real toad.

Puking Pastille
As you can probably guess, this is another Skiving Snackbox sensation! Eat the orange half of this sweet and you’ll produce a magnificent fountain of projectile vomit. Manage to scoff down the purple end and you’ll stop – just like that. The perfect solution for getting out of boring situation… like a particularly dull History of Magic lesson.

Sugar Quill
These sweets look like regular quills but are made of spun sugar. Why might you want one of these? Well, as Ron pointed out, you can eat it during a lesson and your teacher is none the wiser – you just appear to be thinking about what to write next.

Ton-Tongue Toffee
Toffee is known for getting stuck in your teeth… not so much for making your tongue swell to gigantic proportions. However, this was a Fred and George creation, and it did exactly that – as Dudley Dursley once discovered.

Toothflossing Stringmints
While the magical world had a lot of sugary snacks, these are the sweets you might actually consider good for you – it is important to floss after all! Hermione even thought her dentist parents would love them.

Other…

Ghost food
We wanted to add a little nod to ghost cuisine. Our spectral friends are unable to eat food – it literally goes straight through them. Though, if food is left out to rot and allowed to become particularly potent, they can pass through the dish and almost taste it.

Honourable munch-oen

Butterbeer
The wizarding world isn’t just a fully of magical food, it has an excellent line in wizarding drinks too (which you can read all about here). However, as it is Butterbeer Season, we just had to mention the most famous of wizarding world beverages… Butterbeer!

This frothy drink warms your insides, is reminiscent of butterscotch and Harry once described it as the most delicious thing he had ever tasted – we’re sold! Served in both steaming flagons and bottles, this is a versatile wizarding drink – Luna even used the corks to fashion a rather fetching necklace.