Fruit Salad
While tomatoes are fruits, you don't usually put them in fruit salads.
Notes
Fruit Salad is a crafted food item that provides a high-calorie, vitamin-dense meal, notable for its 19 vitamins and 12 carbs in a 900-calorie package. As an herbivore feed and ingredient used in advanced research papers, it fits into the mid-game food chain, supporting both personal nutrition and town progression. Because of its strong vitamin content, including Fruit Salad in your rotation helps balance your diet's nutrient profile, which is key to maximizing your XP skill-gain rate.
Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.
Nutrition
Diet & XP
Eating doesn't change a food's calories or nutrition — those are fixed. What your diet changes is your skill-gain rate (XP). This estimates the rate this food's nutrients contribute. ≈ estimate; set your diet in the ⚙ Character panel.
Base: this food alone (+12 base gain). Craving & dinner-party bonuses are situational (assumed ×1).
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Recycling & waste
0.3× Food Scrap
The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.
How garbage, sorting & recycling work
Total raw to craft this
10× Prickly Pear Fruit
6× Pumpkin