Ambrosia is the food (sometimes the drink) of the gods of Greek mythology.

It may also refer to:

Food

  • Ambrosia (apple), a cultivar
  • Ambrosia, a type of sweet maize
  • Ambrosia (fruit salad), made with coconut and marshmallow

Arts and entertainment

Fictional entities

  • Ambrosia, a farmland town in the videogame Grand Theft Auto VI
  • Ambrosia (Ultima), a fictional lost continent in the Ultima series of computer games
  • Ambrosia, a fictional alcoholic beverage in the television series Battlestar Galactica
  • Ambrosia, a fictional war-torn nation in the imagination of the protagonist in the film Billy Liar
  • Ambrosia, a fictional vaccine to the pandemic known as the "Gray Death" in the computer game Deus Ex
  • Ambrosia, a fictional lost kingdom in the film Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
  • Ambrosia, a fictional drug in the novel Library of Souls
  • Ambrosia Moore, birth name of the fictional character Amber Moore from The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless

Music

  • Ambrosia (band), a musical group formed in the Los Angeles area during the early 1970s
  • Ambrosia (album), the debut album of the band
  • "Ambrosia", a song by Alesana

Biology

  • Ambrosia (plant), a genus of flowering plants in the Asteraceae commonly known as ragweed
  • Ambrosia beetle, beetles which live in nutritional symbiosis with ambrosia fungi
  • Ambrosia fungi
  • Bee bread, also known as ambrosia or bee pollen

People

  • Ambrosia Anderson (born 1984), American basketball player
  • Ambrosia Malone (born 1998), Australian field hockey player
  • Ambrosia María Serrano y Rodriguez (1836–1875), Mexican clergyman and bishop
  • Ambrosia Tønnesen (1859–1948), Norwegian sculptor

Places

  • Ambrosia, West Virginia, US, an unincorporated community
  • 193 Ambrosia, a main belt asteroid

In business

  • Ambrosia (food brand), a UK brand
  • Ambrosia Software, an American software company

Other uses

  • Ambrosia (Hyade), a nymph in Greek mythology
  • Ambrosia (neuter plural), certain festivals in honour of Dionysus