Food appraisal

Food appraisal is a property obtained by reading a blessed scroll of food detection or casting a spell of detect food when at skilled or expert in divination spells. This intrinsic warns you when eating food that cause harmful effects and gives you the chance to stop eating or continue.

Intrinsic Effects

When eating a detrimental comestible, you will be given one of the warning messages in the messages section below as well as a prompt that says Eat it anyway? [yn]. Intrinsic food appraisal will warn you only once of harmful food; after the one warning you lose the intrinsic. Warnings will occur if it eating it has the potential to harm you - if you are resistant to the detrimental effect of the food being eaten the intrinsic will not be lost.

The following warning warnings occur in order of priority:

Warned If:	Example	Not Shown If:
May be tainted	Very old corpses; corpses left by most undead creatures	have sickness resistance
May cause petrification	Cockatrices, chickatrices, Medusa	have petrification resistance
May cause sliming	green slime	are a green slime or wearing amulet of unchanging
May be rotten	Corpses or some comestibles of a certain age	have sickness resistance
May be poisonous	all poisonous monsters	have poison resistance
May break a Monk's dietary conduct	non-vegetarian comestibles	not a Monk
May be acidic	all acidic monsters	have acid resistance
May be rustproof (if polymorphed into a rust monster)	rustproof metal items	not a rust monster
May break a vegan or vegetarian conduct.	animal (vegan) or meat (vegetarian) comestibles	conduct already broken

Food appraisal will not protect you from choking due to over-eating.

When you have this intrinsic the description You can recognize detrimental food appears upon enlightenment.

Messages

Replace <food> with the comestible that is being eaten (for regular forms, includes corpses, tins, and other food items like eggs). This may also be the item that you are eating if you are eating irregular food, such as "long sword" if you are a rust monster eating a rustproof long sword. Replace <nose> with the nose of the form that you are in.

Message	Reason
Your <nose> starts to tingle and you smell food.	You read a blessed scroll or cast the detect food spell at skilled or better. You gain the food appraisal intrinsic.
Your <nose> twitches then starts to tingle.	You read a blessed scroll or cast the detect food spell at skilled or better. You gain the food appraisal intrinsic.
Your <nose> starts to tingle.	You read a blessed scroll or cast the detect food spell at skilled or better. This message is appended to various other messages depending on where food is on the level. You gain the food appraisal intrinsic.
Your <nose> stops tingling and your sense of smell returns to normal.	You were warned of detrimental food. You lose the food appraisal intrinsic.
<food> smells like it could be tainted!	The food can cause food poisoning if consumed.
<food> smells like it might be poisonous!	The food has a chance of being poisoned.
<food> smells like it could be something very dangerous!	The food will cause petrification or sliming if consumed.
<food> smells foul and unfamiliar to you.	The food will break vegan conduct if consumed.
<food> smells unfamiliar to you.	The food will break vegetarian conduct if consumed.
<food> smells disgusting to you right now.	You are a rust monster try to eat a rustproof item.
<food> smells rather acidic.	The food is acidic.

Strategy

Most food-related deaths are entirely avoidable; the Eating Corpses For Food and Intrinsics spoiler can warn you if a corpse is bad to eat. That being said if you have a blessed scroll and you aren't planning on using it for blanking, or preferably the food detection spell, it could assist in preventing YASD from mistakenly eating some foods.