Varieties of ingredients, or almost anything else, are cooked in Yosenabe: vegetables such as Chinese cabbage and Welsh onion; processed-soybean products (atsuage [thick fried tofu], yakidofu (grilled tofu), abura-age [deep-fried tofu]); fish-paste products (hanpen [a cake of ground fish combined with starch and steamed], chikuwa [fish sausage]); seafood such as prawn, fish, or shellfish; meat (beef, chicken, or pork); and mushrooms.
具材は、白菜や葱などの野菜類、大豆製品（厚揚げ、焼き豆腐、油揚げ）、練り物類（はんぺん、ちくわ）、エビや魚、貝などの魚介類、肉類（牛、鳥、豚）、キノコ類など、ほとんど何でもアリといってよい。