Raw food

Raw food is primarily used as an ingredient for meals or to be processed by a nutrient paste dispenser. All raw foods may cause food poisoning, and most of them incur a mood penalty.

Most foods (raw and prepared) spoil after a certain amount of time, depending on the food. Freshly prepared meals spoil at the same time, this does not depend on how fresh the original ingredients were; it is thus possible to extend the shelf life of raw ingredients that are about to go bad by cooking them into meals.

Storing food at low temperatures (close to freezing) extends the shelf life. Frozen food never spoils.

Raw (bad tasting)

The following food items will cause colonists to get the Ate raw food thought. Animals eat these items with no such effect.

Eating raw human meat gives an especially bad mood effect for most colonists (see Human Resources).

	Name	Nutrition	Deterioration rate	Shelf life (days)
	Agave fruit	0.05	6	25
	Corn	0.05	6	60
	Potatoes	0.05	6	30
	Rice	0.05	6	40
	Eggs
	Meat	0.05	6	2

Raw (tasty)

The following food items are tasty, even when eaten raw, and this incurs no mood penalty. However, all raw food is considered unsafe and comes with an increased risk of food poisoning.

	Name	Nutrition	Deterioration rate	Shelf life (days)
	Berries	0.05	6	14
	Milk	0.05	10	14
	Insect jelly	0.05	6	never spoils

Animal Feed

Hay is edible only by herbivorous animals. It can be combined with any meat into Kibble, which is edible by all animals (and humans, incurring a mood penalty).

	Name	Nutrition	Deterioration rate	Shelf life (days)
	Hay	0.05	6	60