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Fruit Salad

Fruit Salad

While tomatoes are fruits, you don't usually put them in fruit salads.

Weight300 gMax stack100Food900 calCompostableSkillCooking Lv 1StationCast Iron Stove

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

Calories900Shelf life72 h
Carbs12
Protein4
Fat3
Vitamins19

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.

Nutrient total38Balanced-diet ××0.66Variety ××1Tastiness ××1Skill-gain rate37

Base: this food alone (+12 base gain). Craving & dinner-party bonuses are situational (assumed ×1).

Recycling & waste

Salvages into (per unit)

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

Steps1Total labor25 calTotal time4 min

Categories

Obtained from

Used in

Cast Iron Stove
Kitchen
Research Table

See also