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 {{message|This <food> smells like it could be tainted!|You were warned of potential food poisoning.}}
 {{message|This <food> smells like it might be poisonous!|The food has a chance of being [[poison]]ous.}}
 {{message|This <food> smells like it could be something very dangerous!|The food will cause petrification or sliming if consumed.}}
 {{message|This <food> smells foul and unfamiliar to you.|The food will break vegan conduct if consumed.}}

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 |-
 |May be [[poisonous]]{{refsrc|src/eat.c|2366|nethack=3.6.7}}
-|all poisonous monsters
+|corpses of poisonous monsters
 |have [[poison resistance]]
 |-
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 |-
 |May be [[acidic]]{{refsrc|src/eat.c|2389|nethack=3.6.7}}
-|all acidic monsters
+|corpses of acidic monsters
 |have [[acid resistance]]
 |-

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	'''Food appraisal''' is an intrinsic [[property]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]'', and warns a [[hero]] that possesses it of potentially harmful [[food]] effects.		'''Food appraisal''' is an intrinsic [[property]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]'', and warns a [[hero]] that possesses it of potentially harmful [[food]] effects.

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 ==Variants==
 ===dNetHack===
-In [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]], [[Buer (dNetHack)|Buer]] is a [[Spirits (dNetHack)|spirit]] that grants permanent food appraisal while bound.
+In [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]], [[Buer (dNetHack)|Buer]] is a [[Spirits (dNetHack)|spirit]] that grants indefinite food appraisal while bound.
 ===EvilHack===

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 ==Strategy==
-Most food-related deaths that are covered by food appraisal are entirely avoidable, with both this wiki and various spoilers (such as the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130802034840/http://voxl.org:80/nethack/corpses.html Eating Corpses For Food and Intrinsics] spoiler from voxl.org) containing a wealth of information on which corpses are safe for which heroes. Despite this, the property can still be useful to prevent [[YASD]] from certain typos, e.g. accidentally eating a [[cockatrice]] corpse that the hero is wielding.
+Most food-related deaths that are covered by food appraisal are entirely avoidable, with both this wiki and various spoilers (such as the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130802034840/http://voxl.org:80/nethack/corpses.html Eating Corpses For Food and Intrinsics] spoiler from voxl.org) containing a wealth of information on which corpses are safe for which heroes. Even so, the property can still be useful to prevent [[YASD]] from certain typos, e.g. accidentally eating a [[cockatrice]] corpse that the hero is carrying.
 ==History==

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 ==History==
-The food appraisal intrinsic first appears in [[Hack 1.0]] with the scroll of food detection.
+The food appraisal property first appears in [[Hack 1.0]] with the scroll of food detection.
 ==Messages==

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 {{message|You can recognize detrimental food.|You are viewing the food appraisal intrinsic via [[enlightenment]].}}
-{{message|Your <nose> starts to tingle and you smell food.<br>Your <nose> twitches then starts to tingle.<br>Your <nose> starts to tingle.|You read a blessed scroll of food detection, or cast the detect food spell at Skilled or better, and gained the food appraisal intrinsic; the exact message depends on where you are able to smell food if there is any elsewhere on the level.}}
+{{message|Your <nose> starts to tingle and you smell food.}}
 {{message|Your <nose> stops tingling and your sense of smell returns to normal.|You were warned of detrimental food, using up the intrinsic.}}

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 ==Variants==
 ===EvilHack===
 In [[EvilHack]], [[Hobbit (starting race)|hobbit]] heroes start each game with permanent food appraisal.
 ==References==

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 |May break the [[vegan]] conduct{{refsrc|src/eat.c|2409|nethack=3.6.7}}
 |non-vegan but vegetarian corpses or<br />animal-matter items (dragonhide/leather/wax/bone)
-|are eating other non-vegan comestibles (see Warning Bug below)<br />OR already broke conduct
+|are eating other non-vegan comestibles or already broke conduct (but see below)
 |-
 |May break the [[vegetarian]] conduct{{refsrc|src/eat.c|2420|nethack=3.6.7}}
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 * corpses that [[polymorph]] the eater (such as [[doppelganger]]s)
 * corpses that would give a potentially unwanted intrinsic, such as [[teleportitis]] or [[lycanthropy]]
-* non-corpse, non-tin comestible items such as [[egg]]s or [[candy bar]]s that would break vegan and/or vegetarian conducts - this may be bugged behavior
+* non-corpse, non-tin comestible items such as [[egg]]s or [[candy bar]]s that would break vegan and/or vegetarian conducts - '''this may be bugged behavior'''
 ==Strategy==

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 When the hero attempts to [[eat]] a comestible item, the food appraisal intrinsic will warn if that comestible has a potentially detrimental effect or breaks a given [[conduct]], and prompts the player if they want the hero to continue eating or to stop, disappearing after a successful warning&mdash;this warning will not occur if the hero is either resistant to the harmful effect, or else if that effect would not apply. In the case of [[tin]]s, the warning will be given before opening the tin, and declining to eat the tin in response will not discard the tin.
-In order of priority, food appraisal will warn of the following: [[tainted]] food that causes [[illness]]; food that causes [[stoning]]; food that causes [[sliming]]; food that might be [[Rotten food|rotten]]; food that can be [[poisonous]]; food that violates a [[Monk]]'s diet; food that is [[acidic]]; metal "food" that may be [[rustproof]] if the hero is a [[metallivore]]; food that violates [[vegetarian]] conduct; and food that violates [[vegan]] conduct. The latter two are also applied for a hero that is polymorphed into a monster capable of eating [[wax]], [[bone]], [[leather]], or [[dragon hide]] items&mdash;eating wax breaks vegan conduct, while eating the other materials breaks vegetarian conduct.
+In order of priority, food appraisal will warn of the following:{{refsrc|src/eat.c|2296|nethack=3.6.7|name="edibility"|comment=<tt>edibility_prompts</tt>}} [[tainted]] food that causes [[illness]]; food that causes [[stoning]]; food that causes [[sliming]]; food that might be [[Rotten food|rotten]]; food that can be [[poisonous]]; food that violates a [[Monk]]'s diet; food that is [[acidic]]; metal "food" that may be [[rustproof]] if the hero is a [[rust monster]]; food that violates [[vegetarian]] conduct; and food that violates [[vegan]] conduct. The latter two are also applied for a hero that is polymorphed into a monster capable of eating [[wax]], [[bone]], [[leather]], or [[dragon hide]] items&mdash;eating wax breaks vegan conduct, while eating the other materials breaks vegetarian conduct. There is also a second check for tainted corpses or similar items that occurs even if the hero has [[immunity to sickness]].
-The traits that cause warnings from the food appraisal property and the circumstances where the intrinsic will not warn the player occur as follows:
+The traits that cause warnings from the food appraisal property and the circumstances where the intrinsic will not warn the player occur as follows:<ref name="edibility"/>
 {|class="prettytable"
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 !Not shown if you:
 |+
-|May be [[tainted]]
+|May be [[tainted]]{{refsrc|src/eat.c|2340|nethack=3.6.7}}
 |very old corpses; corpses left by most [[undead]] creatures
 |-
 |-
-|May cause [[petrification]]
+|May be [[rotten]]{{refsrc|src/eat.c|2357|nethack=3.6.7}}
 |corpses or some comestibles of a certain age
-|have [[sickness resistance]]
+|have sickness resistance
 |-
-|May be [[poisonous]]
+|May be [[poisonous]]{{refsrc|src/eat.c|2366|nethack=3.6.7}}
 |all poisonous monsters
 |have [[poison resistance]]
 |-
-|May break a [[Monk]]'s dietary conduct
+|May be poisoned to put the hero to sleep{{refsrc|src/eat.c|2375|nethack=3.6.7}}
 |non-vegetarian comestibles
 |are not a Monk
 |-
-|May be [[acid]]ic
+|May be [[acidic]]{{refsrc|src/eat.c|2389|nethack=3.6.7}}
 |all acidic monsters
 |have [[acid resistance]]
 |-
-|May be [[rustproof]] (if [[polymorph]]ed into a [[rust monster]])
+|May be [[rustproof]] (if polymorphed into a rust monster){{refsrc|src/eat.c|2396|nethack=3.6.7}}
 |rustproof metal items
 |are not a rust monster
 |-
-|May break the [[vegan]] conduct
+|May break the [[vegan]] conduct{{refsrc|src/eat.c|2409|nethack=3.6.7}}
 |non-vegan but vegetarian corpses or<br />animal-matter items (dragonhide/leather/wax/bone)
 |are eating other non-vegan comestibles (see Warning Bug below)<br />OR already broke conduct
 |-
-|May break the [[vegetarian]] conduct.
+|May break the [[vegetarian]] conduct{{refsrc|src/eat.c|2420|nethack=3.6.7}}
 |meat comestibles
-|already broke conduct or eating non-corpse meat comestibles (see Warning Bug below)
+|already broke conduct or eating non-corpse meat comestibles (but see below)
 |}
-Food appraisal will ''not'' warn against the following harmful effects:
+Food appraisal will ''not'' warn against the following harmful or undesired effects:
 * choking from over-eating
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 * corpses that [[polymorph]] the eater (such as [[doppelganger]]s)
 * corpses that would give a potentially unwanted intrinsic, such as [[teleportitis]] or [[lycanthropy]]
-* non-corpse, non-tin comestible items such as [[egg]]s or [[candy bar]]s that would break vegan and/or vegetarian conducts
+* non-corpse, non-tin comestible items such as [[egg]]s or [[candy bar]]s that would break vegan and/or vegetarian conducts - this may be bugged behavior
 ==Strategy==