Sugar Beet

Sugar Beet

Class	Raw Meat and Fish
Type	Vegetables
Hunger	-9
Thirst	-4
Calories	24
Fresh	4 days
Rotten	6 days
Cook Time	10 min
Weight	0.2
Location	-
Spawn ID	`/additem Base.SugarBeet`

A Sugar Beet is a root vegetable grown on a farm. It is a modest food that eases hunger and thirst a little. Eaten as it is, it makes a character slightly unhappy.

Sugar beets spoil within a week. They come from farming, grown from Sugar Beet Seeds. A single plant gives a generous harvest. The Rancher is the best occupation for raw meat and fish. It starts with the most Butchering skill. The Chef and the Fishing Guide also start with some Butchering skill.

Eating

A Sugar Beet lowers hunger by 9 and thirst by 4. It adds 10 unhappiness. It holds only 24 calories, with 3 grams of carbohydrates and 4 grams of protein.

That makes it a poor way to keep body weight up. The small thirst bonus helps when clean water is short. A Potato lowers hunger by 18 at the same weight of 0.2, so a potato is the more filling crop.

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
Sugar Beet	-9	-4	24	3	4	0	10

Cooking

A Sugar Beet cooks in 10 minutes in an oven, on a stove or over a fire, and burns after 30.

Farming

Sugar beets grow from Sugar Beet Seeds. A plant takes about 12 days to grow and gives 4 to 9 beets at harvest.

The sowing season runs from February to July. March and June are the best months to plant. Sugar beets planted from September through January do poorly.

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

Seed	Image	Grow Time	Harvest	Sowing Months	Best Months	Spawn ID
Sugar Beet Seeds		12 days	4-9	February, March, April, May, June, July	March, June	`/additem Base.SugarBeetSeed`

Storage

A Sugar Beet stays fresh for 4 days and is rotten by day 6. A fridge slows both counts. A large harvest is best eaten or stored cold soon after picking.