Cucumber

Cucumber

Class	Fruits and Vegetables
Type	Vegetables
Hunger	-10
Thirst	-10
Calories	33
Fresh	6 days
Rotten	14 days
Cook Time	-
Weight	0.3
Location	Containers
Spawn ID	`/additem Base.Cucumber`

A Cucumber is a fresh vegetable that can be eaten raw or added to soups, salads and sandwiches. It eases thirst as well as hunger, which makes it a useful find early on. It weighs 0.3.

Cucumbers keep for about a week before they start to turn. They come from grocery stands and restaurant fridges, and a farm can grow them. Seeds can also be taken from a Cucumber with the Collect Seeds recipe. The Farmer is the best occupation for fruits and vegetables. It starts with the most Agriculture skill.

Eating

Eating a raw Cucumber lowers hunger by 10 and thirst by 10. That thirst bonus beats Corn and Carrots, which lower thirst by only 4. It holds 33 calories, with about 6 grams of carbohydrates, 2 grams of protein and very little fat. That makes it a poor way to keep body weight up.

Cucumbers are safe to eat raw, so they can be eaten straight from the stand. Compared with Corn, which lowers hunger by 14 and thirst by 4, a Cucumber fills less but quenches more. A Daikon lowers hunger by 12 and thirst by 5.

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
Cucumber	-10	-10	33	6.1	2.37	0.63

Cooking

Cucumbers add 10 hunger to Soup, Stir Fry and Salad. In a Sandwich they add 5. They need no cooking of their own.

The Collect Seeds recipe takes one Cucumber and a pair of tweezers or a knife. It gives Cucumber Seeds for planting.

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

Dish	Hunger Restored	Note
Salad	10	-
Soup	10	-
Stir Fry	10	-
Sandwich	5	-

Used in Crafting

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

Recipe	Output	Image	Station	Skill	Spawn ID
Collect Seeds	Cucumber Seeds		-	None	`/additem Base.CucumberSeed`

Farming

Cucumbers grow from Cucumber Seeds. A plant takes about 18 days to grow and gives 2 to 4 cucumbers at harvest. The sowing season runs from March to May, and April is the best month to plant. Cucumbers planted from August through to February do poorly.

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

Seed	Image	Grow Time	Harvest	Sowing Months	Best Months	Spawn ID
Cucumber Seeds		18 days	2-4	March, April, May	April	`/additem Base.CucumberSeed`

Storage

A Cucumber stays fresh for 6 days and is fully rotten by day 14. Corn, Daikon and Carrots are all fully rotten by day 8, so a Cucumber lasts longer. A fridge slows both counts down.

Locations

Cucumbers are a common find. The grocery stands at Gigamart, grocery stores and outdoor supply stores hold them about half the time. Chinese restaurant kitchen fridges carry them fairly often. Sushi kitchen fridges turn them up now and then. Mexican, Italian and other restaurant kitchen fridges hold them less often. A house fridge can hold one by luck.

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

ShopsHomes

Location	Container	Chance
Gigamart	Grocery stand	53.3%
Grocery store	Grocery stand	53.3%
Outdoor supply store	Grocery stand	53.3%
Chinese kitchen	Fridge	29.6%
Sushi kitchen	Fridge	17%
Restaurant kitchen	Fridge	4.3%
Fancy restaurant kitchen	Fridge	4.3%