Which ingredient adds Calorie-Dense in Schedule 1?

Donut — it costs $3 at Gas Mart and unlocks at Hoodlum rank (tier 1). Add it at a mixing station and Calorie-Dense joins the product's effect list.

How much does Calorie-Dense add to the sell price?

+28% of the product's base value. On a $35 weed bud that is $45 per unit; on $70 meth, $90; on $150 cocaine, $192. Effects stack, so it combines with everything else already on the product.

Calorie-Dense

Results in immediate weight gain. Calorie-Dense is a tier-2 effect that adds +28% of the product's base value to the sell price and contributes 0.100 addictiveness to the customer. Like all effects it stacks with the others already on a product, up to the 8-effect limit, and it can be mixed onto any product in the game.

Which Ingredient Adds It

Exactly one ingredient carries Calorie-Dense in the v0.4.7 data:

Ingredient	Price	Unlocks at	Value on OG Kush
Donut	$3	Hoodlum (tier 1)	$45

On a $35 OG Kush bud the ingredient pays for itself as long as Calorie-Dense is worth more than its $3 cost — which at +28% of base value it is on every product except the zero-bonus ones.

Best Recipe to Get Calorie-Dense

The solver explored every ingredient sequence (up to 8, transformation rules included) and this is the most profitable recipe that ends with Calorie-Dense on the final product — Donut → Donut → Addy → Battery → Horse Semen → Cuke → Mega Bean → Viagor on Cocaine.

Product	Recipe (in order)	Ingredients	Sell price	Profit
Cocaine	Donut → Donut → Addy → Battery → Horse Semen → Cuke → Mega Bean → Viagor	8	$699	$504
Meth	Donut → Banana → Cuke → Horse Semen → Mega Bean → Viagor → Cuke → Addy	8	$304	$196
Shroom	Donut → Donut → Addy → Battery → Horse Semen → Cuke → Mega Bean → Viagor	8	$303	$193
OG Kush	Donut → Mega Bean → Banana → Cuke → Horse Semen → Viagor → Chili	7	$154	$85
Green Crack	Gasoline → Cuke → Battery → Banana → Viagor → Cuke → Mega Bean → Cuke	8	$151	$84

Steps and per-step transformations are in the reverse calculator — pick Calorie-Dense and the product to replay the whole chain.

Transformations

Mixing does not only append effects — under v0.4.7 rules an ingredient first applies its transformation table (if-effect-present → replace-with) to the effects already in the bucket, and only then adds its own default effect if there is room. That is exactly how Calorie-Dense can appear on a product even when no ingredient carries it: another effect gets converted into it mid-mix. The full 114-rule table is derived from the game's own mix-map data and every recipe on this site runs it. Calorie-Dense is not the initial effect on any product.

Price Multiplier

Calorie-Dense adds +28% of the base value. Because the bonus scales with the product's base price, the same effect is worth a different dollar amount depending on what you mix it onto:

Product	Base price	Sell price with Calorie-Dense	Value added
OG Kush	$35	$45	+$10
Meth	$70	$90	+$20
Cocaine	$150	$192	+$42

Full formula: sell price = base × (1 + the sum of every effect's bonus), rounded to the whole dollar — the same math the mixing calculator runs for any ingredient chain.

Products That Want It

Calorie-Dense does not make the cut in any of our published best mixes — higher-value effects fill every slot of the profit recipes. It remains a solid pick for budget builds before those ingredients unlock: check the best mixes hub for the cheap alternatives per product.

FAQ

Want to test your own ingredient order? Want Calorie-Dense on a specific product — open the Schedule 1 mixing calculator and replay any chain step by step.