Nutrition

For the stat, see Nutrition (Stat).

Nutrition is a property of food and plants, that represents the how much saturation it gives the creature eating it. 1.0 nutrition is enough to satiate a adult human from 0 saturation; they will seek out food before then, though. Body size impacts how much saturation a creature can hold.

Food nutrition

	Food	Nutrition	Type
	Ambrosia	0.2	Drug - Social drug
	Beer	0.08	Drug - Social drug
	Carnivore fine meal	0.9	Food - Meal
	Carnivore lavish meal	1	Food - Meal
	Chocolate	0.1	Food - Meal
	Fine meal	0.9	Food - Meal
	Kibble	0.05	Food - Meal
	Lavish meal	1	Food - Meal
	Nutrient paste meal	0.9	Food - Meal
	Packaged survival meal	0.9	Food - Meal
	Pemmican	0.05	Food - Meal
	Simple meal	0.9	Food - Meal
	Vegetarian fine meal	0.9	Food - Meal
	Vegetarian lavish meal	1	Food - Meal
	Agave fruit	0.05	Food - Raw food
	Berries	0.05	Food - Raw food
	Cassowary egg (fert.)	0.5	Food - Raw food
	Chicken egg (fert.)	0.25	Food - Raw food
	Chicken egg (unfert.)	0.25	Food - Raw food
	Cobra egg (fert.)	0.25	Food - Raw food
	Corn	0.05	Food - Raw food
	Duck egg (fert.)	0.25	Food - Raw food
	Duck egg (unfert.)	0.25	Food - Raw food
	Emu egg (fert.)	0.5	Food - Raw food
	Goose egg (fert.)	0.5	Food - Raw food
	Goose egg (unfert.)	0.5	Food - Raw food
	Hay	0.05	Food - Raw food
	Human meat	0.05	Food - Raw food
	Iguana egg (fert.)	0.25	Food - Raw food
	Insect jelly	0.05	Food - Raw food
	Insect meat	0.05	Food - Raw food
	Meat	0.05	Food - Raw food
	Milk	0.05	Food - Raw food
	Ostrich egg (fert.)	0.6	Food - Raw food
	Potatoes	0.05	Food - Raw food
	Raw fungus	0.05	Food - Raw food
	Rice	0.05	Food - Raw food
	Tortoise egg (fert.)	0.25	Food - Raw food
	Turkey egg (fert.)	0.5	Food - Raw food
	Twisted meat	0.05	Food - Raw food
	Hemogen pack	0.1	Food
	Baby food	0.05	Food - Meal
	Toxfish	0.05	Food - Raw food
	Toxipotatoes	0.05	Food - Raw food
	Psilocap	0.1	Drug - Social drug
	Alligator egg (fert.)	0.5	Food - Raw food
	Bass	0.25	Food - Raw food
24px	Bluebird egg (fert.)	0.25	Food - Raw food
	Bluefish	0.25	Food - Raw food
	Catfish	0.5	Food - Raw food
	Cod	0.25	Food - Raw food
24px	Crow egg (fert.)	0.25	Food - Raw food
	Dogfish	0.5	Food - Raw food
	Flamingo egg (fert.)	0.5	Food - Raw food
	Flounder	0.5	Food - Raw food
	Frostfish	0.5	Food - Raw food
	Guppy	0.05	Food - Raw food
24px	Heron egg (fert.)	0.5	Food - Raw food
	Macaw egg (fert.)	0.25	Food - Raw food
	Marlin	0.5	Food - Raw food
24px	Monitor lizard egg (fert.)	0.25	Food - Raw food
	Peafowl egg (fert.)	0.25	Food - Raw food
	Penguin egg (fert.)	0.5	Food - Raw food
24px	Penguin egg (unfert.)	0.5	Food - Raw food
	Piranha	0.25	Food - Raw food
	Quail egg (fert.)	0.25	Food - Raw food
	Salmon	0.25	Food - Raw food
24px	Sea turtle egg (fert.)	0.5	Food - Raw food
24px	Sea turtle egg (unfert.)	0.5	Food - Raw food
	Sparrow egg (fert.)	0.25	Food - Raw food
24px	Swan egg (fert.)	0.25	Food - Raw food
	Tilapia	0.25	Food - Raw food
	Tuna	0.5	Food - Raw food
	Vulture egg (fert.)	0.25	Food - Raw food
	Vulture egg (unfert.)	0.25	Food - Raw food

Usage

Nutrition is used to determine the amount of a food ingredient is required to make an item. The following items require nutrition to make.

Product	Ingredients	Type
Carnivore fine meal	0.75 Nutrition (meat)	Food - Meal
Carnivore lavish meal	1.25 Nutrition (meat)	Food - Meal
Fine meal	0.25 Nutrition (non-vegan) + 0.25 Nutrition (vegan)	Food - Meal
50×  Kibble	1 Nutrition (non-vegan) + 1 Nutrition (vegan/hay)	Food - Meal
Lavish meal	0.5 Nutrition (non-vegan) + 0.5 Nutrition (vegan)	Food - Meal
Nutrient paste meal	0.3 Nutrition (any)	Food - Meal
Packaged survival meal	0.3 Nutrition (non-vegan) + 0.3 Nutrition (vegan)	Food - Meal
16×  Pemmican	0.25 Nutrition (meat) + 0.25 Nutrition (vegan)	Food - Meal
Simple meal	0.5 Nutrition (any)	Food - Meal
Vegetarian fine meal	0.75 Nutrition (vegetarian)	Food - Meal
Vegetarian lavish meal	1.25 Nutrition (vegetarian)	Food - Meal
10×  Baby food	0.25 Nutrition (vegetarian)	Food - Meal

Plant nutrition

While rooted plants can't be eaten directly by human pawns, plants provide nutrition when eaten by herbivorous animals. Dendrovores like alphabeavers can consume trees, while the thrumbo can eat both trees as well as the typical herbivore diet of grass, dandelions, healroot, ambrosia, and fungi. All plants are completely destroyed upon animal consumption, trees do not leave stumps in this case.

Hungry, herbivorous animals will find and consume accessible plants after plant growth reaches maturity, typically around 65% of its total growing time and when it first becomes available for colonist harvest. Nutrition provided upon consumption is a plant stat, where the final value is a species base value multiplied for plant growth.

Nutrition (final value) = Species' base value * Growth percentage multiplier

The food requirements of an animal is largely species dependent. The relevant stats are called Grass to Maintain and Food Consumption. Food Consumption is the nutrition eaten per day and can be modified by a number of different factors, such as pregnancy.

Tamed animals will eat mature plants and consumable items they have access to, either in their pen, surrounding the Caravan hitching spot they are roped to, or in their assigned zone. Tamed non-pen animals can traverse closed doors and fence gates to reach food if it's all within their assigned zone.

Crops

The harvest yield is a crop stat for the quantity of items the plant is converted into when a human harvests the plant. Harvesting completely destroys most plants, except ambrosia, berries bushes, cocoa trees, and agave fruit, which can produce multiple harvests before the organism dies at the end of its life span. The equation for plant Harvest Yield is

Harvest yield = Species' base value * Storyteller harvest yield setting

The final quantity of product harvested from a plant is a function of the plant's harvest yield as well as the colonist stat Plant Harvest Yield.

Analysis

Harvesting a mature crop plant generally produces more nutrition than letting an animal directly consume the living plant, except in cases where the harvesting colonists have exceptionally low plant harvest yield stats. Keep in mind that low colonist Harvest Yield stats have a chance of botching the harvest completely, yielding nothing while killing the plant.

For example, consuming a full-grown haygrass plant provides 0.30 nutrition. A 100% harvest yields 18 hay with 0.05 nutrition each: a total of 0.90 nutrition. Processing the hay further into kibble increases final nutrition yield at the expense of meat, time, and work.

However, the viability of free grazing depends on the abundance of plant life on your map, e.g. soil fertility, sunlight, temperature, snow, and biome. Animal malnutrition results in slowed Growth rates, miscarriage, health penalties, and even death by starvation.

	Nutrition
Agarilux	0.75
Agave	0.2
Alocasia	0.5
Ambrosia bush	0.5
Anima tree	2
Archean tree	1.15
Astragalus	0.25
Bamboo tree	1.5
Berry bush	0.5
Birch tree	2
Bonsai tree	0.25
Brambles	0.5
Bryolux	0.3
Bush	0.5
Cecropia tree	1.5
Chokevine	0.25
Clivia	0.5
Cocoa tree	1.5
Corn plant	0.4
Cotton plant	0.2
Cypress tree	2
Dandelions	0.25
Daylily	0.05
Devilstrand (plant)	0.2
Drago tree	2
Gauranlen tree	2
Giant rafflesia	0.5
Glowstool	0.5
Grass	0.5
Gray pine tree	2
Harbinger tree	2
Haygrass	0.3
Healroot	0.2
Hop plant	0.2
Low shrubs	0.25
Maple tree	2
Moss	0.5
Night grass	0.5
Night rafflesia	0.5
Nutrifungus	0.25
Oak tree	2
Palm tree	1.5
Pebble cactus	0.25
Pincushion cactus	0.25
Pine tree	2
Poplar tree	1.5
Potato plant	0.25
Psilocap (plant)	0.5
Psychoid plant	0.2
Rat palm tree	2
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