Midjourney is a generative text-to-image tool that uses AI to create beautiful images based on the text prompts that you provide. This powerful tool is improving exponentially, and it just so happens to create incredible images of food.
These AI generated food images don’t just look good, but they’re useful too. Food bloggers, restaurants, delivery websites, nutrition apps, and many other food businesses all need vast databases of food images. Now, they can use Midjourney to generate all the images they need.
Here are 48 of the best Midjourney food prompts that you can copy and paste into Midjourney to get similar results.
Best Midjourney Food Prompts
Prompt: orange juice, copy space, tasty + wide shot + cinematic shot + photo taken by ARRI, photo taken by sony, photo taken by canon, photo taken by nikon, photo taken by sony, photo taken by hasselblad + incredibly detailed, sharpen, details + professional food lighting, photography lighting + 20mm + lightroom gallery + behance photography + unsplash, 8k,
Prompt: amazing and delicious chocolate cake, food photography, studio lighting, 35mm lens, 8k
Prompt: 6 pieces of donuts in a box, 2d image, light colors, 8K, high quality
Prompt: big fat juicy hamburger realistic
Prompt: food jumping insanely detailed and intricate elegant
Prompt: Melting ice cream, retrowave, galaxy background, Multispectral Imaging, aliasing, glow, shaders, vivid, photorealist, hyper realist
Prompt: A magnificent cake looking like a winter landscape + ultra realistic, octane render
Prompt: A 5 dimensional, chicken adobo, professional food photography, professional color grading,
Prompt: Caesar salad, top view, black background, wide photo, wide shot, long distance photo, unreal engine 5, very realistic, very detailed, realistic photography, 4k, 85 – mm – lens, sharp – focus, intricately – detailed, f/ 8, ISO 100, shutter – speed 1/ 125, diffuse – back – lighting, award – winning photograph, elle, small – catchlight, low – contrast, High – sharpness, depth – of – field, ultra – detailed photography, raytraced, global illumination
Prompt: Greek Salad, flying ingredients, creative, dramatic light, kodak 70mm, octane render, 8K, HD
Prompt: Pop art, ramen, illustration
Prompt: Brambles with red fruit, anime, 8k
Prompt: Milkshake, light background, wallpaper, no text, quality as in the photo, 8k v 4 ar 4: 5
Prompt: Fish and chips, food photography, soft cinematic lights, juicy, bright, high quality, ultra detailed, 32k
Prompt: Delicious, scrumptious, beautiful arrangement of desserts, captured in high – resolution and close – up, with various colors, textures and shapes of the desserts clearly visible. The photograph is taken with a high – end camera, using a macro lens for a shallow depth of field, to focus attention on the desserts. The background is slightly out of focus, to draw attention to the desserts. The image is well – composed with good lighting, showing the desserts in a visually appealing and mouth – watering way, capturing the deliciousness and beauty of the desserts
Prompt: Gyudon – Thinly sliced beef and onions served over rice Depth of Field, F/ 2. 8, high Contrast, Cinematic Lighting, ethereal light, intricate details, extremely detailed, incredible details, full colored, complex details, by Weta Digital, Photography, Photoshoot, Shot on 70mm, Super – Resolution, ProPhoto RGB, Massive, Big, Spotlight, Frontlight, Halfrear Lighting, Backlight, Rim Lights, Cinematic Lighting, volumetric Light, Contre – Jour, Rembrandt Lighting, Beautiful Lighting, Accent Lighting, Global Illumination, Ray Tracing Global Illumination, Optics, Materiality, Ambient Occlusion, Glowing, Shadows, Rough, Shimmering, Ray Tracing Reflections, Chromatic Aberration, CGI, VFX, SFX, insanely detailed and intricate, hypermaximalist, elegant, super detailed
Prompt: Sushis, food photography, soft cinematic lights, juicy, bright, high quality, ultra detailed, 32k
Prompt: A very bright white kitchen setting with A hot steaming bowl of classic beef stew on a table, steam eminating from the top, hyper realistic, food photography, excellent composition, well – lit, sharp – focus, high –
quality, attention to detail
Prompt: Food illustration, beef noodles, closeup view, fine dining, Michelin star, luxurious
Prompt: Bento box with lunch inside, kawaii cat faces
Prompt: Chicken tikka being grilled over coal
Prompt: Pancake turntable
Prompt: Towering stack of pancakes covered in maple syrup and butter, delicious food
Prompt: Isolate salmon steak, skin burn medium rare, glossy, juicy, medieum shot, lights, detailed, cinematic light, photorealistic, color film, leica M3, 25mm Cine Lens f/ 1. 4, Film grain, Shutter speed 1/ 25, 5000 Kelvin, bright lights, intricate details, Movie composition, Moody photography, style of Christopher Nolan
Prompt: Cereal, by Studio Ghibli and Akihiko Yoshida, vibrant colors, landscape, character, scenery, high fantasy, Anime Concept Art, Anime, Hyper Detail, Cel Shading, Cinematic Shading, pixiv, trending on Artstation
Prompt: A cosmic bowl of cereal
Prompt: Filipino dish, Pork Sinigang, rustic, in white bowl, photography, foodstagram
Prompt: Apple with sweet syrup
Prompt: Avocado toast, macro shot
Prompt: Flat colored T – shirt design of a Watermelon Juice, icon, little – flat Graphic Design
Prompt: Diced watermelon in a glass bowl, food photography, full view, 45 degree view, full view, ultra detailed, 8k, clean + cinematic shot + photos taken by ARRI, photos taken by sony, photos taken by canon, photos taken by nikon, photos taken by sony, photos taken by hasselblad + incredibly detailed, sharpen, details + professional lighting, photography lighting + 50mm, 80mm, 100m + lightroom gallery + behance photographys + unsplash
Prompt: A tin of sardines next to lemons and herbs, hyper – realistic
Prompt: A closeup marketing photo of a Fried Chicken piled up on a plate at a picnic. Marketing promo. High contrast, depth of field, F/ 2. 8, cinematic lighting, extremely high resolution photo, 8k, super detailed. Sharpened image. Upscaled. Real life photo.
Prompt: Buffalo wings – Crispy chicken wings deep – fried and tossed in a spicy buffalo sauce, typically served with blue cheese dressing and celery sticks.
Prompt: A vegan dish with sweet potato, vegetable pickles, salads and falafels
Prompt: Digital flat illustration of an indian meal, soft light, soft shadows, light mode
Prompt: Side view of traditional asian dumplings with meat and vegetables served, , professional food photography
Prompt: Three coconut drinks at a luxury tropical resort.
Prompt: A pina colada cocktail in a highball glass, bright vivid colors, with a pineapple garnish, on a bar in a dimly lit room with tiki decorations in the background, a realistic photo
Prompt: Colored magazine article about tossed salad and scrambled eggs
Prompt: A photo of delicious ribs pork bbq, food photography, gourmet, f2. 8 50mm lens
Prompt: Deconstructed peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Prompt: “A close – up shot of a perfectly cooked steak with a light, creamy sauce drizzled over the top, set against a light, neutral background. ” 8k, photorealistic, high resolution, hd, high detailed, photo detailed, Professional food photography
Prompt: Photo of glass of tomato juice with celery garnish, food photography, depth of field, color photography
Prompt: French Bread
Prompt: Flying sandwich, realism, creative photography, beautiful light and shadow, pastel color background, high – speed photography, dynamic photography, ultra clear 8K
Prompt: A hundred people eating pizza, in the style of hieronymus bosch
Prompt: A world made of pasta
Prompt: A japanese Tonkotsu Ramen Bowl with noodles and other ingredients flying out of the bowl manga style colorful highly detailed uhd
Prompt: Detail shot of the whole fish with a grilled skin on a metal plate, cilantro and spices, lime, food photography, gourmet, depth of field f2. 8, 50mm lens, exquisite detail, sharp – focus, intricately – detailed, diffuse – back – lighting, award – winning photography, monovisions, elle, small – catchlight, low – contrast, High – sharpness, facial – symmetry, depth – of – field, ultra – detailed photography
If you’re as excited as us about learning how to use Midjourney and create AI art, then make sure you check out our guide on advanced Midjourney prompts.
Further Resources
Here at WGMI, we’ve become a little obsessed with collecting Midjourney Prompts. If you’re hunting for the perfect Midjourney prompts then make sure you check out our free resource of over 1,000 Midjourney Prompts. It includes design styles, logo prompts, photography prompts, game design prompts, Anime prompts and a lot more. It’s 100% free.
