Originally posted by Sminky:

then what are stamina foods? This 'new' mechanic isn't really covered by a shouty raven? :) It seems a weird choice to add in your game about exploring with risk. Valheim isn't, and can't be Dark Souls.

Foods have colored forks on their icon, helping denote what it buffs the most. Or you can just hover over the foods to see the stats.
Red = Health; Typically meat based foods
White= Balanced
Yellow = Stamina; Typically gathering based foods

Early examples of foods will be just cooking raw meat on the rack for health and berries for stamina.
With the cauldron will be minced meat sauce for health and queens jam for stamina.

Before the change that was introduced for food there was a definitive best food combo from each biome. Now what you eat can add a bit of depth to your choices for game play and the best food to eat will depend on your style and objective.

It should also be noted that there was changes made to the blocking/parry system too.
I don't remember the specifics, but even a parry can let chip damage through, as well as players having a stagger bar and how easily you get staggered being based on your max hp.