Fruit Juice

Trees, shimmer conversions and a few biome plants hand you fruit faster than you find recipes for it, and several kinds have no dedicated use at all. This is where they go. Any fruit in the game is accepted, so a drawer full of one-off oddities collapses into a single usable food stack.

Early on it is one of the easier buffs to keep running without building anything, since the ingredients grow on their own while you are busy elsewhere. It gets outgrown once you have a kitchen: Fruit Salad and Ambrosia sit higher on the food ladder and take the same odd fruit, so stop stockpiling juice the moment those recipes are open to you.