These differences are small and nearly cancel each other out, but may be important/interesting to some players. Because pemmican comes in smaller pieces, colonists will take only as much as they need, and typically only waste about 2.5% while eating. A set meal restores a fixed 0.9 nutrition in one single piece, so they will often waste about 15% of it. Colonists try to eat just before actually getting hungry, so they will typically eat at about 0.7-0.8 hunger. While pemmican technically has a lower net nutrition gain than fine / simple meals, it is slightly more efficient while eating. The word comes from the Cree word (pimîhkân), which is derived from the word. Historically, it was an important part of indigenous cuisine in certain parts of North America and it is still prepared today.

A fine meal has a lower nutrition density (2.045 vs 2.778) Pemmican is a mixture of tallow, dried meat, and sometimes dried berries.A caloric rich food, it can be used as a key component in prepared meals or eaten raw.A fine meal can store more nutrition in a full stack (9 vs 3.75).A fine meal expires much faster (4 days vs.A fine meal provides more nutrition (0.9 vs.Pemmican requires the exact same ingredients as a fine meal, but: Producing pemmican takes 0.5 units of nutrition in ingredients and yields 0.8 units of nutrition as a result - a 60% net nutrition gain. Pemmican is very useful for long-term food storage before you get freezers, as it lasts 70 days unrefrigerated before rotting. A single batch produces 16 pemmican with 0.05 nutrition each, for 0.8 nutrition total, and up to 20 can be consumed in one sitting. It can be cooked (after researched) from a mixture of 0.25 nutrition from meat and 0.25 nutrition from vegetables, without cooking skill requirement, on a campfire, fueled stove or an electric stove. Pemmican is a low-tech long-lasting food, ideal for caravan trips.

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