Talk:Vegetable/@comment-68.41.210.161-20130521150251/@comment-122.49.135.59-20130707042745

Well actually if you want to get really technical, as far as the game is concerned there are the following categories ("foodtype"):

- veggie (includes all fruit and veggies, and veggies crock pot recipes)

- meat (includes meat, small meat, froglegs, fish, also all eggs for some reason, all meat crock pot recipes)

- generic (honey, butterfly wings, butter, wet goop)

- elemental (all gems, rocks, gold, nitre, flint)

The last type is only for certain creatures (rock lobsters etc) - elementals and non-elementals are two distinct types of food, no creature can eat both types AFAIK. So personally I wouldn't list "elemental" as a food type in its own right, although it might be worth noting the "food value" of the elementals (so people know how long a rock lobster will follow or how much slime you can get from a slurtle/snurtle).

To make things more confusing, the veggie type IS kind of split into "veggie" and "fruit" using tags, which are used for crockpot recipes (and nothing else AFAIK) - but there are other tags as well. Because of this, if there's not made a separate list, I think it should at least be mentioned somewhere what each item is tagged as together with its value, as you can end up with different recipes depending on what you use (e.g. fruit=0.5, etc.). I think this is mentioned elsewhere but maybe it should be on the infobox for each item?

Carrying on from the above, we also have the following food tags (an item may have multiple food tags, and these are not necessarily related to the "foodtype" described above):

- Fruit

- Veggie

- Meat

- Monster (monster meat, durian)

- Magic (mandrake)

- Egg (bird eggs, tallbird eggs)

- Decoration (butterfly wings)

- Fat (butter)

- Dairy (butter)

- Sweetener (honey)

- Inedible (twigs)

Hopefully this has cleared everything up. Naturally noone will actually pay this post any attention, but at least it's here in case someone actually cares.