# Kelp Rice

- **ID**: `FOOD_P_WATER`
- **What it is**: Raw Ingredient
- **Category**: Exotic
- **Base value**: 1,200 units
- **Storage**: Store: Nutrient Processor. Store it in Nutrient Processor. Why: Food and ingredients go to the Nutrient Processor.
- **Eating it**: Breathing Efficiency at potency 0.30 (underwater exploration)
- **Gettable**: loot (unknown): no recipe makes it, and the guides do not say where it drops

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## Cheapest chain

1 x Kelp Rice from **Tier 2 - + harvester**, refining and cooking. Gather: 1 Di-hydrogen, 1 Oxygen, 1 Nitrogen. 3 step(s), 1.4m of machine time (one refiner, unattended).

- 1 x [Kelp Rice](FOOD_P_WATER.md): Extract Nutrients x1, 5s, Nutrient Processor
  - 1 x [Kelp Sac](PLANT_WATER.md): Encourage Growth x1, 1.0m, Medium Refiner
    - 1 x [Salt](WATER1.md): Rapid Formation / Evaporation x1, 20s, Medium Refiner
      - 1 x [Di-hydrogen](LAUNCHSUB.md) (gather)
      - 1 x [Oxygen](OXYGEN.md) (gather)
    - 1 x [Nitrogen](GAS3.md) (gather)

## Made by (1)

| Make | From | Operation | Mult | Time | Machine | Rate/h | Profit | Gettable |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kelp Rice | [Kelp Sac](PLANT_WATER.md) | Extract Nutrients | x1 | 5s | Processor | 720 | +1,159 | T2 +2 |

## Used in (3)

| Make | From | Operation | Mult | Time | Machine | Rate/h | Profit | Gettable |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Refined Flour](FOOD_R_FLOUR.md) | Kelp Rice | Extract Nutrients | x1 | 5s | Processor | 720 | +600 | loot (unknown) |
| [Healthy Wheatblock](FOOD_B_VEG.md) | Sugar Dough + Kelp Rice | Dough Augmentation | x0.50 | 5s | Processor | 720 | +28,800 | loot (unknown) |
| [Fish and Rice](FOOD_F_RICE.md) | Any Seafood + Kelp Rice | Seafood Assembly | x0.50 | 5s | Processor | 720 | +49,700 | loot (unknown) |

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