Food

Food is an object that is meant to be eaten for the sake of warding off hunger. Although most of the time it's nothing more than that, food can have a significant meaning or power, like granting a special buff to the eater. It is a large part of almost all cultures in the world in both real life and fiction.

Types of food
Just like weapons and gear, there are many kinds of food that exist in both fiction and real life. As there are many types, they have different functions as well.

Sustenance food
This food is just for eating and nothing else; it has no special effects, and it does nothing other than keeping the eater from dying of hunger. But without it, A Lot Of Bad Stuff Is Gonna Happen. Death, for example, is a common disease caught by people who go too long without any food in them. It's life-long, so you better eat food while you can.

Buff food
This food, once ingested, will grant its consumer a good effect of some kind. This can be better stats, buffs, and, most commonly in survival games, healing. Although buff food really only exists in video games, it could also be in other fiction albeit under a different description than traditional buff food.

Painful food
The opposite of buff food, painful food is food that hurts the consumer by poisoning them (food poisoning or giving the Poison debuff upon being eaten) or cursing them with something like an incurable disease, eternal sleep, or another quirk. Unlike other types of food, it's advised against you to eat this.