Food

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You need to eat to survive. Your character simply needs food in his inventory in order to stay fed. Food in a backpack will be shared among the squad members.

Food consists of all the items in Kenshi, which fill your hunger bar. A character's hunger bar is filled by 1 for every nutrition charge used. They automatically consume some food when their hunger gets below 250 unless the only types of food they have are edible ingredients. In that case, they will not eat it until they get below 200.

Characters can eat any food on their own or their squad member's inventories, including that in their backpack. After eating, the hunger bar slowly fills up over time. Characters of different Races have different rates at which their hunger drains. The speed at which hunger drains is also dependent on any action that a character is doing, i.e., it will drain more slowly if a character is idle and faster if a character is working.

Types of Edible Food

All edible food items that are not also ingredients. Displayed with their nutrition value. Items marked by an asterisk (*) can be made by the player.

	Food	Nutrition (Nu)	Avrg. Price (.c)	Weight (kg)	Size	Price per Nutrition	Nutrition per Size	Edible by
	Ancient Nutri-Rations	125	1143	1	4	9.144	31.25	All
	Chewsticks*	20	134	0.5	6	6.70	3.33	All
	Cooked Vegetables*	25	300	1	9	12	2.78	All
	Dried Fish	20	379	1	3	18.95	6.67	All
	Dried Meat*	15	68	1	4	4.50	3.75	All
	Dustwich*	70	856	1	6	12.23	11.67	All
	Foodcube*	75	976	1	6	13.01	12.5	All
	Foul Raw Meat	10	1	1	4	0.1	2.5	Animals, Hivers
	Gohan*	75	400	1	9	5.33	8.33	All
	Grand Fish	15	120	1	6	8.00	2.5	All
	Meatwrap*	50	616	1	6	12.32	8.33	All
	Ration Pack	125	1350	1	4	10.80	31.25	All
	Rice Bowl*	25	300	1	9	12.00	2.78	All
	Thinfish	10	360	1	3	36.00	3.33	All

Edible Ingredients

These ingredients are edible before being further processed. Item marked by an asterisk (*) can be made by the player.

	Ingredients/ Food	Nutrition (Nu)	Avrg. Price (.c)	Weight (kg)	Size	Price per Nutrition	Nutrition per Size	Edible by	Used in
	Raw Meat	15	100	1	4	6.66	3.75	Animals, Hivers, Scorchlanders	Dried Meat, Meatwrap
	Bread*	30	641	0.5	6	21.37	5	All	Foodcube, Meatwrap, Dustwich

Non-Edible Ingredients

Not all ingredients are edible by themselves, they are listed here. All of them are either grown or otherwise made from Farming-related activities.

	Ingredients	Avrg. Price (.c)	Weight (kg)	Used in
	Cactus	50	1	Chewsticks, Dustwich
	Greenfruit	30	1	Cooked Vegetables, Foodcube, Gohan
	Riceweed	13	1	Gohan, Rice Bowl
	Strawflour	100	4	Bread
	Water	25	10	Mostly in cooking and watering (farming)
	Wheatstraw	50	4	Strawflour

Trivia

• The food system was first introduced in the v0.90 beta update.