Guide:Consumables/Consumables usefulness list

Brief explanation of tiers:
S(5k) - Reserved for rare consumables obtained form chests that last for 5k steps, as they are often way better at anything other consumables may provide.
S - Best consumables in the game. Should always be used when necessary.
A+ - Really close to S-tier consumables, but they have some downside or have less use cases. Should always be used when necessary.
A - Overall great food but may have some hard requierments or get outclassed. Should be used when you already have materials for them.
B+ and B - consumables that have more limited use cases, but still provide good bonuses.
C+ and C - consumables with very limited use that almost never worth to obtain.
F - should never be used.

Tier	Name	Ingame image	Stats	Note
S(5k)	Fruit Cake
S(5k)	Frozen Bait
S(5k)	Veggie Soup
S(5k)	Jarvonian Pastry
S(5k)	Spicy Pumpkin Juice
S(5k)	Creme Brulee
S(5k)	Schnitzel
S	Sweet Carrot Pie			Best food for quality crafting, should always use when possible
S	Underwater Salad			Best food for cooking without using Fruit Cake. Pretty easy to cook, awards good xp.
S	Saltrum			Best food after Spicy Pumpkin Juice for fine bars, and pretty decent for normal bars. Easy to craft.
S	Pickles			Best food for fine material crafting. Easy to craft
S	Jelly Sandwich			Best food for Agility, really easy to craft.
A+	Mushroom Curry			Really useful effect with being relatively easy to cook. Would be a solid contender for S-tier once tomatoes become more available.
A+	Chocolate Milk			Best food for fine planks. Will be moved to S-tier once chocolate becomes farmable. Impossible to get fine
A+	Dynamite			Great bonus for material gathering, but such a big hit for xp might be a big turnaround for some players. Solid contender for S-tier
A+	Cooked Pike			Almost similar to Saltrum, but for lacking DR and lasting only for 500 steps(may require more inventory space) should be a bit lower.
A+	Bread			Solid always useful food. One of the easiest crafts and part of ingridient for other useful foods.
A+	Wine			If activity has collectible there is almost no reasons to not use wine.
A+	Trout Soup			Easy to craft and has good bonuses.
A	Cooked Squid			Solid food for Job Board runs.
A	Porridge			Early recipie with really easy craft and not bad bonus.
A	Cooked Shark			While bonuses are good the requierments are quite high. Requires advanced kitchen(location without a bank with negative WE bonus and locked behind Soup Kitchen collectible), and can only be farmed in Darkside Trench(Expert Diving Gear requirement)
A	Cooked Swordfish			Great bonus for gathering fine logs with multiple ways to obtain, but all of them are located underwater.
A	Cooked Lobster			A bit worse then Pickles, but still decent.
B+	Cooked Trout			Can be helpful on low step actions for chest farming.
B+	Fried Noodles(5k)			It doesn't help with processing fine materials. Being the food coming only from chests it has a really limited quantity. Can be used to speed up normal processing, speed up for a bit chest and xp farming.
B+	Bug Bait(5k)			Fishing doesn't have an activity with low enough min steps for it to shine, but there is no harm in putting it on when you get it from chest.
B+	Fried Fish Sandwich			Harder craft then Trout Soup for almost the same outcome.
B	Cooked Carp			Biggest Find Bird Nest bonus in the Game, but at the moment aside from getting a bit more gold from opening and selling their loot has no use. Will rank higher if Bird Nests recieve change.
B	Beer			You'll get quite a few as you play from chests, can be used at something like Rescue Team.
B	Mud Pie			While the bonus itself has no practical use in game at the moment, it has lowest step requierment to cook and can be used as a way to farm chests.
C+	Cooked Anglerfish			Can be used to cap WE on Spelunking or Cave diving, but it has all the same requierments as shark while bonus is lacking.
C+	Cooked Largemouth Bass			As its the only Trinketry consumable, it can be used to cap WE which is hard to come by for trinketry, but in reality never worth it.
C+	Bagel			Bonus is too low, should only be used as an early sandwich for achievement.
C+	Kelp Rolls			While bonus can be useful, getting materials to cook enough takes just too long.
C+	Salmon Pie			Can be used to cap WE at something like mangroves.
C+	Cooked Shrimp			Bonus is too low, should only be used as early leveling method.
C	Nettle Tea			Bonus is too low, not worth to cook/bring.
C	Cooked Perch			Bonus is too low, not worth to cook/bring.
C	Cooked Stingray			Bonus is too low, not worth to cook/bring.
C	Cooked Jellyfish			Carpentry activities and crafts have too high Min steps for it to be worth going for.
C	Pancake			Bonus is too low, not worth to cook/bring.
C	Cooked Salmon			Bonus is too low, not worth to cook/bring.
F	Roasted Bell Pepper			It's bad. Just buy some Beer please.