Where does food go?

[Apothicus]

Sadly mods can't add details on the info stuff, but you could check the tabs in the townhall. The inventory one lists things stored in general storage, but also in houses or in trade posts.

What I suspect is that on the year you really wrote things down, most people had almost no food left at home and all hit the market for house restocking, or you opened new hosues and couples moving in each took the max amount of food home. If it happens every year, there's a clear issue somewhere though.

Are you playing at super high speed? Or did you get a massive wave of deaths? I think inventory is lost on death, so if you had vendors / farmer deaths while they had full inventory, or people dead on their way back from the market while carrying food home, that could account for a bit of loss, but you'd need a large wave of deaths for a food loos in the tens of thousands.

Hi Vrayna.
Thanks for the hints, everything helps.
I found my food, it isn't counted if it is lying around. As soon as I built a huge warehouse it was all counted. Up over 400K stored now.

My next question is about processed food, tined food, soups, bagels, salted and smoked meats. Are these worth more nutrition than unprocessed food? If not, why bother?