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Shark

“I'd better be careful eating this.”

The Shark is the workhorse high-heal food of Old School RuneScape — bought in enormous volume for bossing, PvP and slayer. It's a pure consumable, so its value is all in its live price and how fast it trades.

▼ Sell it on the Grand Exchange — high-alching it loses about 1,010 per cast.

Shark

Live value · updated 2026-07-07T08:52:51Z

GE buy price

980

insta-buy

GE sell price

953

insta-sell

GE sell tax

−19

2% · capped 5M

Alch profit

−1,010

per cast, after nature

Item facts

High alch

102 gp

Low alch

68 gp

Store value

170 gp

Buy limit

10,000 / 4h

Daily volume

2,077,096

Members

Yes

Tradeable

Yes

Stackable

Equipable

Weight

0.650 kg

Released

27 February 2002

What to do with it

Best use for Shark

✦

Bread-and-butter combat food

A Shark heals 20 Hitpoints per bite, making it the default food for most mid-to-late-game combat before the pricier anglerfish and saradomin brews. Constant combat demand keeps its market huge.

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Buy and sell, don't alch

With one of the deepest trade volumes in the game the Shark is easy to buy and sell in bulk. Its alch value sits below its price, so alching a Shark loses gold — it's strictly a sell item.

Check the live numbers yourself

Prices move — open the calculator to see this item's current alch-vs-sell verdict and profit per buy limit.

Open in High Alch Calculator

Shark FAQ

How much does a Shark heal in OSRS?

20 Hitpoints per one, which is why it's the standard combat food across a huge span of the game. The live buy price is in the panel above.

Should I high alch Sharks?

No — its value is entirely as a consumable, and alching it would lose gold. Buy them to eat, or flip them; never alch them.

Shark

Best use for Shark

Bread-and-butter combat food

Buy and sell, don't alch

Check the live numbers yourself

Shark FAQ

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