Ingredients

 Ingredients are imperishable  Faction-specific type of Goods used by recipes in various  Buildings to produce  Food or more refined Ingredients.

Obtaining

Ingredients come from many different sources, from harvesting to refining.

Ingredient sources

Source	Ingredients
Gatherers from suitable  Trees and  Bushes	Chestnuts  Coffee Beans  Mangrove Fruits
Farmers from suitable  Crops	Potato  Spadderdock  Wheat  Cattail Root  Cassava  Soybean  Corn  Eggplant
Gardeners from  Hydroponic Gardens	Mushroom  Algae
Oil Press	Canola Oil
Gristmill	Wheat Flour  Cattail Flour
Tapper's Shack	Maple Syrup

Usage

Ingredients are stored in  Warehouses (solids) and  Tanks (liquids) and do not perish.

Processing ingredients

Faction	Ingredient	Source	Processor	Result
	Potato	Potato  Crop	Grill	Grilled Potatoes
	Spadderdock	Spadderdock  Crop	Grill	Grilled Spadderdock
	Chestnuts	Chestnut  Tree	Grill	Grilled Chestnuts
	Maple Syrup	Maple  Tree	Oil Press	Canola Oil
	Wheat	Wheat  Crop	Gristmill	Wheat Flour
	Wheat Flour	Wheat	Bakery	Bread  Maple Pastries
	Cattail Root	Cattail  Crop	Gristmill	Cattail Flour
	Cattail Flour	Cattail Root	Bakery	Cattail Crackers
	Cassava	Cassava  Crop	Fermenter	Fermented Cassava
	Soybean	Soybean  Crop	Fermenter	Fermented Soybean
	Canola Seeds	Canola  Crop	Oil Press	Canola Oil
	Corn	Corn  Crop	Food Factory	Corn Ration
	Eggplant	Eggplant  Crop	Food Factory	Eggplant Ration
	Mushroom	Hydroponic Garden	Fermenter	Fermented Mushroom
	Algae	Hydroponic Garden	Food Factory	Algae Ration

Strategies

Until you have the Badwater from Badtides controlled, aquatic crops are dangerous as they encourage  Beavers to enter the fluid.

Before growing Ingredients, there are plenty of Foods that don't require ingredients that you can produce first.

All  Iron Teeth ingredient-based foods require power to process. Most  Folktails ingredient-based foods do too, but you can start with the  Grill which doesn't.