Tips for newbies: the kitchen - how to buy proper food

Day 1,858, 20:21 • Published in Netherlands USA • by Yfke van de Zand

While the quality of weapons influence the outcome of your game (experience, ranking up etc., as explained in other articles), THE QUALITY OF FOOD YOU EAT HAS NO IMAPCT WHATSOEVER.

As you can notice on the marketplace icons, each food item, according to its quality has a "health" value, meaning how much health points it will restore by eating one food item of each quality:
Q1 = 2 health points restored
Q2 = 4 health points restored
Q3 = 6 health points restored
Q4 = 8 health points restored
Q5 = 10 health points restored
Q6 = 12 health points restored
Q7 = 20 health points restored

You need to eat enough food to resupply your health bar (it starts at 500 for new players I guess). You can eat any combination of food to replace an empty health bar:

250 x Q1 food
125 x Q2 food
83 x Q3 food + 1 x Q1 food
62 x Q4 food + 1 x Q2 food OR 62 x Q4 food + 2 x Q1 food
50 x Q5 food
41 x Q6 food + 1 x Q4 food OR 41 x Q6 food + 4 x Q1 food
25 x Q7 food

This happens automatically, the game will first "eat" the higher quality food and then look for lower quality food on your storage to make it a round number.

There are two important consequences you should keep in min😛

- always have some Q1 food around to make it for a nice round multiple of 2 health points; and

- buy food that has the lower cost per health point, no matter its quality

The bold statement is a very important one if you are a savvy player. Just make a quick calculation. Example: Q1 food is costing 0.10, Q3 food is costing 0.24, Q7 food is costing 1.20 - which do I buy?

In the example above, the costs per health point are

Q1 => 0.10 / 2 = 0.05 per health point
Q3 => 0.24 / 6 = 0.04 per health point
Q7 => 1.20 / 20 = 0.06 per health point

In this case, it is best that you buy Q3 food. But always have some small quantity of Q1 food left over for making the round numbers.

As a practical matter, rarely if ever Q7, Q6 and Q5 food will be economical, they are usually expensive offers left on the market to get naive players overpaying for fancy food avatars with big crabs and overcooked lobsters (look at the color of the lobsters on the avatar!). So just compare the lower quality foods Q1-Q4 and decides what is best.