Trial Stew

A Trial Stew is an item in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Super Paper Mario by mixing Couple's Cake with a Poison Shroom. Lowers the user to one HP and down to zero FP.

Lowering the player to one HP could offer an opportunity for a Mega Rush (P) Strategy, but this strategy hits a roadblock because the FP is lowered to 0. Some people ignore this and just don't use attacks that consume Flower Points. Others use Sweet Treat or Sweat Feast to bring their FP up (however, they have to be careful not to up their HP unless they want to use Power Rush instead, in which they can up their HP to 5). There are many strategies for using Trial Stew, but the casual player will probably have no use for this.

It also appears in Super Paper Mario. With no FP in this game, it is a horrible item that is completely negative in effects. Unless the player wants to prove they can beat the game with 1 HP, it is useless in the game.

Trivia
It's name is probably derived from The Pit of 100 Trials.