PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a smoking material for foods, which responds to various needs widely.SOLUTION: The smoking material for foods is produced by a first process (STEP11) for mixing peat with a powdered piece of wood to give a mixture, a second process (STEP12) for inserting the mixture obtained by the first process 1 into a mold and pressurizing and dehydrating the mixture to give a dehydrated product and a third process (STEP13) for drying the dehydrated product obtained by the second process.