Broccoli

Broccoli

Class	Fruits and Vegetables
Type	Vegetables
Hunger	-9
Thirst	-4
Calories	11
Fresh	4 days
Rotten	6 days
Cook Time	10 min
Weight	0.2
Location	Containers
Spawn ID	`/additem Base.Broccoli`

Broccoli is a fresh green vegetable that can be eaten raw, cooked or added to many dishes. It weighs only 0.2. On its own it is a small snack. Its real value is as a cooking ingredient, where each head adds hunger to a soup, a stew, a pie or a pasta dish.

Broccoli spoils within a week, so it suits a cook who plans to use it soon. It comes from produce crates, grocery stands and restaurant fridges. A farm can also grow it from Broccoli Seeds. The Farmer is the best occupation for fruits and vegetables. It starts with the most Agriculture skill.

Eating

A head of raw Broccoli lowers hunger by 9 and thirst by 4. It holds only 11 calories, so it does almost nothing for body weight. A diet of greens alone leads to weight loss.

Broccoli is good hot, so a cooked head gives a small mood lift if eaten soon after cooking. It is safe to eat raw. Compared with Carrots, which lower hunger by 8 and thirst by 4, broccoli is almost the same as a snack. Both are far better used in a dish.

The table shows the game figures for one serving. Negative hunger and thirst fill the character up, and negative unhappiness and boredom cheer them up.

Item	Hunger	Thirst	Calories	Carbs	Protein	Fat
Broccoli	-9	-4	11	2	0.9	0.1

Cooking

Broccoli cooks in 10 minutes in an oven, a microwave or over a fire, and burns after 30. It adds 9 hunger to a Pizza, an Omelette, a Soup, a Stew, a Pie, a Stir Fry, a Salad, a Rice dish or Pasta. A pot of soup or stew with a few heads of broccoli and some meat makes a filling meal.

Broccoli can also be preserved. The Make Jar of Preserved Food recipe puts 5 heads into a jar with vinegar, salt and water. The jar keeps far longer than the fresh vegetable.

These dishes take the Broccoli as an ingredient, with the hunger it restores in each.

Dish	Hunger Restored	Note
Omelette	9	-
Pasta	9	-
Pie	9	-
Pizza	9	-
Rice	9	-
Salad	9	-
Soup	9	-
Stew	9	-
Stir Fry	9	-

Used in Crafting

These recipes take the Broccoli as an ingredient or a part.

Recipe	Output	Image	Station	Skill	Spawn ID
Make Jar of Preserved Food	Jar of Broccoli		-	Cooking: 0	`/additem Base.CannedBroccoli`

Farming

Broccoli grows from Broccoli Seeds. A plant takes about 12 days to grow and gives 2 to 4 heads at harvest. The sowing season runs from February to July, and March and June are the best months to plant. Broccoli planted from September to January does poorly.

How the crop grows, from the game's farming data.

Seed	Image	Grow Time	Harvest	Sowing Months	Best Months	Spawn ID
Broccoli Seeds		12 days	2-4	February, March, April, May, June, July	March, June	`/additem Base.BroccoliSeed`

Storage

Fresh broccoli stays fresh for 4 days and is fully rotten by day 6. A fridge slows both counts down. For long keeping, a jar of preserved broccoli is the better choice.

Locations

Broccoli is a common find where fresh produce is kept. Produce crates always hold it. The grocery stands at Gigamart and grocery stores carry it about half the time. Chinese restaurant kitchen fridges hold it fairly often. Produce storage rooms, restaurant fridges and house fridges turn up a head now and then.

The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.

ShopsHomes

Location	Container	Chance
Produce crate	Crate	100%
Gigamart	Grocery stand	53.3%
Grocery store	Grocery stand	53.3%
Chinese kitchen	Fridge	29.6%
Produce storage	Other	10.7%
Restaurant kitchen	Fridge	4.3%
Fancy restaurant kitchen	Fridge	4.3%