Eggplant

Eggplant

Class	Fruits and Vegetables
Type	Vegetables
Hunger	-16
Thirst	-9
Calories	114
Fresh	5 days
Rotten	8 days
Cook Time	30 min
Weight	0.2
Location	Containers
Spawn ID	`/additem Base.Eggplant`

Eggplant is a fresh vegetable that can be eaten raw or cooked into a long list of dishes. It is a fairly filling vegetable. One eggplant lowers hunger by 16 and helps a little with thirst.

It makes the character a little unhappier, and it tastes better hot. It keeps for under a week. Eggplants are found in produce crates, grocery stands and restaurant kitchens, and they can be preserved in jars. The Farmer is the best occupation for fruits and vegetables. It starts with the most Agriculture skill.

Eating

A raw Eggplant lowers hunger by 16 and thirst by 9. It also raises unhappiness by 10. It is better hot, so a cooked eggplant eaten soon after cooking is a more pleasant meal.

It holds 114 calories, with 27 grams of carbohydrates, 4.5 grams of protein and almost no fat. That is a fair amount of energy for a vegetable, though it alone will not keep body weight up.

For its weight of 0.2, it fills well. Carrots weigh the same and lower hunger by only 8. Cabbage lowers hunger by 24 and a Potato by 18. The thirst bonus of 9 is a real help when clean water is short.

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	Unhappiness
Eggplant	-16	-9	114	27	4.5	0.8	10

Cooking

An Eggplant cooks in 30 minutes and burns after 60. An oven or a fire works for it.

It is a strong ingredient for evolved dishes. It adds 16 hunger to Soup, Stew, Pie, Stir Fry, Rice and Pasta. It adds 8 to a Pizza or an Omelette. Once cooked, it adds 8 to a Burger or a Salad and 4 to a Sandwich. That is twice what a carrot adds to the same soups and stews.

Eggplants can also be preserved. The Make Jar of Preserved Food recipe puts 3 eggplants into a jar with vinegar, salt and water. It needs a knife, a jar and a Jar Lid. The jar keeps far longer than the fresh vegetable.

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

Dish	Hunger Restored	Note
Pasta	16	-
Pie	16	-
Rice	16	-
Soup	16	-
Stew	16	-
Stir Fry	16	-
Burger	8	Cooked only
Omelette	8	-
Pizza	8	-
Salad	8	Cooked only
Sandwich	4	Cooked only

Used in Crafting

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

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

Storage

A fresh Eggplant stays fresh for 5 days and is fully rotten by day 8. A fridge slows both counts down. For long keeping, preserving them in a jar is the better choice.

Locations

Eggplants are a common find where fresh produce is stored. Produce crates always hold them. The grocery stands at Gigamart and grocery stores carry them about half the time. Produce storage rooms turn them up now and then.

Italian and other restaurant kitchen fridges hold them rarely. A fridge in a house can turn one up too.

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%
Produce storage	Other	10.7%
Restaurant kitchen	Fridge	4.3%
Fancy restaurant kitchen	Fridge	4.3%