Satiations

[Karede]

I don't quite get it
Hovering over a pumpkin pie in your inventory highlights bread and vegetables, indication it satiates those, but the tooltip says is has a chance of satiating nuts and seeds and fowl/poultry, and that's what it does.
Could I just cram pumpkin pies forever with no consequence, or is it actually affected by the satiations it gives?
And what does satiation do exactly? Would a 90% satiation reduce a food items effectiveness to 90% as I'd assume, or does it have another effect?

[Ysh]

Could I just cram pumpkin pies forever with no consequence

Yes, but you will only get CON and STR forever.

Would a 90% satiation reduce a food items effectiveness to 90%

Yes.

[loftar]

Hovering over a pumpkin pie in your inventory highlights bread and vegetables, indication it satiates those

That actually indicates what it is satiated by.

[Karede]

So having 90% satiation for bread and eating pumpkin pies would reduce the effectiveness of the pumpkin pie to 90%?
Would 93% satiation for vegetables reduce that to 93% of 90% of the reduced value, or would it just use the lowest satiation?
Also, why does it debuff your satiation for completely unrelated foods? Is it a design decision or an oversight?
To use another example, it seems as though the only penalty for spamming honeybuns is being unable to eat cheese or fish afterward

[Karede]

Okay, in practice it's a lot more interesting.
By gorging myself on honeybuns I've completely fucked my cheese satiation.
This means I can't eat cheese effectively until I clear it by lowering a few other satiations, which means I need to seek out alternate foods.
Roast pork satiates meat pretty effectively, so I can just gorge myself on that without hurting anything else.
But this also throws a spanner in the works should I want to make a bunch of sausage later.
Drinks will help, but I'll still need to eat things I otherwise wouldn't bother with.
Very cruel of you to make milk satiate dairy instead of just milk. You win this round loftar