Red Berries
Food · FoodVegetable1★Grows all over the island and works either raw or in a recipe — one of the most flexible ingredients around.
Red Berries is 5th of 20 foods by hunger restored, at 20 against the 100 of Corn Soup.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient. Whatever you build is the finished article, so there is no reason to hoard spares.
Details
It weighs almost nothing and stacks to 9,999, so there is no reason not to carry a full stack. It sells for almost nothing, so do not bother hauling it to a shop.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Grape at 40 hunger restored; step down and it is Cavern Mushroom at 15. Weigh the jump against what the next tier costs you before committing the resources.
Other foods at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
