Mixed Berry Pie

Mixed Berry Pie is a cooked meal made at the Gas Range. It combines 3 Sleet Wheat Grain, 4 Grubfruit, and 1 Gristle Berry, with the Gristle Berry itself first requiring processing from Bristle Berry in an Electric Grill. Like other advanced meals, it exists as a higher-tier food option for colonies that can support multiple farms and cooking stations.

Mixed Berry Pie does not increase total calories compared to its ingredients when Sleet Wheat Grain is counted as Frost Bun for comparison, so its value comes from food quality rather than raw caloric gain. It improves the quality of the meal enough to make it a strong morale food, which makes it especially useful once basic survival food is no longer sufficient.

• Because it needs both farmed ingredients and a cooked ingredient, Mixed Berry Pie is a mid- to late-game food that ties together several production chains.
• The recipe depends on Gristle Berry being cooked into Gristle Berry first, so it also requires access to an Electric Grill before the Gas Range can produce it.
• It can be dehydrated into a long-lasting dried food variant. Dried food never spoils, but it must be rehydrated with a Rehydrator before it can be eaten.
• Since it does not provide extra calories over its ingredient value, it is usually best viewed as a morale food rather than an efficient calorie converter.