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 in 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, which 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.

It is worth noting that no food items are subject to spoilage in Kenshi.

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)	Buy value (c)	Sell value (c)	Weight (kg)	Size	Buy value per Nutrition (c/Nu)	Sell value per Nutrition (c/Nu)	Nutrition per Size	Edible by
	Ancient Nutri-Rations	125	1143	571	1	4	9.14	4.57	31.25	All
	Chewsticks*	20	152	76	0.5	6	7.60	3.80	3.33	All
	Cooked Vegetables*	25	318	159	1	9	12.72	6.36	2.78	All
	Dried Fish	20	360	180	1	3	18.00	9.00	6.67	All
	Dried Meat*	15	78	39	1	4	5.20	2.60	3.75	All
	Dustwich*	70	730	365	1	6	10.43	5.21	11.67	All
	Foodcube*	75	874	437	1	6	11.65	5.83	12.50	All
	Foul Raw Meat	10	1	0	1	4	0.10	0.00	2.50	Animals, Hivers
	Gohan*	75	444	222	1	9	5.92	2.96	8.33	All
	Grand Fish	15	360	180	1	6	24.00	12.00	2.50	All
	Meatwrap*	50	658	329	1	6	13.16	6.58	8.33	All
	Ration Pack	125	1143	571	1	4	9.14	4.57	31.25	All
	Rice Bowl*	25	186	93	1	9	7.44	3.72	2.78	All
	Thinfish	10	360	180	1	3	36.00	18.00	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)	Buy value (c)	Sell value (c)	Weight (kg)	Size	Buy value per Nutrition (c/Nu)	Sell value per Nutrition (c/Nu)	Nutrition per Size	Edible by	Used in
	Raw Meat	15	60	30	1	4	4.00	2.00	3.75	Animals, Hivers, Scorchlanders	Dried Meat, Meatwrap
	Bread*	30	488	244	0.5	6	16.27	8.13	5	All	Foodcube, Meatwrap, Dustwich

Non-Edible Ingredients

Not all ingredients are edible by themselves. The non-edible ingredients 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	15	1	Chewsticks, Dustwich
	Greenfruit	30	0.5	Cooked Vegetables, Foodcube, Gohan
	Riceweed	13	0.5	Gohan, Rice Bowl
	Strawflour	400	4	Bread
	Water	25	10	Mostly in cooking and watering (farming)
	Wheatstraw	40	1	Strawflour

Trivia

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