Sweet Potato
| Sweet Potato | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Fruits and Vegetables |
| Type | Vegetables |
| Hunger | -18 |
| Thirst | -7 |
| Calories | 70 |
| Fresh | 28 days |
| Rotten | 280 days |
| Cook Time | 30 min |
| Weight | 0.2 |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.SweetPotato
|
A Sweet Potato is a filling root vegetable. It is best cooked, and it goes into soups, stews, pies and stir fries. It also eases thirst a little.
Sweet potatoes keep for weeks, far longer than most fresh produce. They are found at grocery stands and in produce crates, and a farm can grow them from Sweet Potato Seeds. The Farmer is the best occupation for fruits and vegetables. It starts with the most Agriculture skill.
Eating
A Sweet Potato lowers hunger by 18 and thirst by 7. It adds 10 unhappiness when eaten as it is. It holds 70 calories, with about 15 grams of carbohydrates.
It is better hot, so a cooked sweet potato gives a small mood lift if it is eaten soon after cooking. Cooking it into a dish is the best way to eat it.
A Potato also lowers hunger by 18 at the same weight of 0.2. A plain Potato adds only 5 unhappiness, while the sweet potato does more for thirst.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweet Potato | -18 | -7 | 70 | 14.52 | 2.88 | 0.15 | 10 |
Cooking
A Sweet Potato cooks in 30 minutes in an oven, on a stove or over a fire, and burns after 60.
It goes into Soup, Stew, Pie and Stir Fry, adding 18 hunger to each. Once cooked, it can go into a Salad for 9. That makes it one of the strongest vegetables to add to a pot. The Cooking skill makes each ingredient go further.
These dishes take the Sweet Potato as an ingredient, with the hunger it restores in each.
| Dish | Hunger Restored | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Pie | 18 | - |
| Soup | 18 | - |
| Stew | 18 | - |
| Stir Fry | 18 | - |
| Salad | 9 | Cooked only |
Farming
Sweet potatoes grow from Sweet Potato Seeds. A plant takes about 18 days to grow and gives 3 to 4 sweet potatoes at harvest.
The sowing season runs from May to July, and June is the best month to plant. Sweet potatoes planted from October through February do poorly.
How the crop grows, from the game's farming data.
| Seed | Image | Grow Time | Harvest | Sowing Months | Best Months | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweet Potato Seeds | 
|
18 days | 3-4 | May, June, July | June | /additem Base.SweetPotatoSeed
|
Storage
A Sweet Potato stays fresh for 28 days. After that it ages slowly and takes a very long time to rot fully. A fridge slows both counts. That makes it one of the best fresh vegetables to stock up on.
Locations
Sweet potatoes are a common find. Produce crates almost always hold them. The grocery stands at Gigamart, grocery stores and outdoor supply stores carry them about half the time. Produce storage rooms turn them up about one time in ten. Restaurant kitchen fridges hold them now and then.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Produce crate | Crate | 100% |
| Gigamart | Grocery stand | 53.3% |
| Grocery store | Grocery stand | 53.3% |
| Outdoor supply store | Grocery stand | 53.3% |
| Produce storage | Other | 10.7% |
| Restaurant kitchen | Fridge | 4.3% |
| Fancy restaurant kitchen | Fridge | 4.3% |
Notes
- Sweet potatoes stay fresh for four weeks.
- They add 18 hunger to a soup, stew, pie or stir fry.
- Cook them into a dish to avoid the mood penalty of eating them raw.
- Plant them in June for the best crop.
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