Food Preferences

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Most pets in Habitica have food preferences. Feeding a pet its preferred type of food will cause a pet to grow into a mount using less food than if it were fed a non-preferred type.
==Mechanics==
 A pet that has not already been hatched and grown before displays a green food bar under the pet image. This bar tracks a pet's growth towards becoming a mount. Once you have the mount version of a pet, the re-hatched pet does not display a food bar because it cannot be grown into a second mount.
*Pets start with 10% of the bar filled after being hatched.
*The bar increases by a certain amount each time the pet is fed. Preferred foods fill the Food Bar much faster (10% per item) than non-preferred foods (4% per item).
*It takes 9 preferred foods or 23 non-preferred foods for a pet to grow into a mount. (You can feed a pet both preferred and non-preferred foods, so it will take at most 23 food to raise a pet to a mount.) 
==Specific Preferred Foods==
Each pet that is hatched from a standard potion has a preference for a certain food. As described above, when fed with their preferred food, pets will turn into mounts much faster.
Show/Hide a hint about food preferences.
Take a look at the colors of the pet and food, at least on pets other than the Base pet...
Show/Hide the food preferences table.
The pet's food preference depends on which hatching potion was used on its egg. For example, a base potion would make the animal like meat and basic foods (cake, candy, and pie), but a white hatching potion would make them like white foods like milk, cream cake, vanilla, etc.
See the chart below:
Hatching Potions	Hatching Potions 	Food Preference 	Food Preference	Cake Preference	Cake Preference	Candy Preference	Candy Preference	Pie Preference 	Pie Preference
 	Base 	Meat 	 	Basic Cake 	 	Basic Candy 	 	Basic Apple Pie 	
 	White 	Milk 	 	Cream Cake 	 	Vanilla Candy 	 	Vanilla Pudding Pie 	
 	Desert 	Potato 	 	Sand Cake 	 	Sand Candy 	 	Desert Dessert Pie 	
 	Red 	Strawberry 	 	Strawberry Cake	 	Cinnamon Candy 	 	Red Cherry Pie 	
 	Shade 	Chocolate 	 	Chocolate Cake 	 	Chocolate Candy 	 	Dark Chocolate Pie 	
 	Skeleton 	Fish 	 	Bare Bones Cake	 	Bare Bones Candy	 	Bone Marrow Pot Pie 	
 	Zombie 	Rotten Meat 	 	Rotten Cake 	 	Rotten Candy 	 	Rotten Pie 	
 	Cotton Candy Pink	Pink Cotton Candy	 	Candy Pink Cake	 	Sour Pink Candy 	 	Pink Rhubarb Pie 	
 	Cotton Candy Blue	Blue Cotton Candy	 	Candy Blue Cake	 	Sour Blue Candy 	 	Blueberry Pie 	
 	Golden 	Honey 	 	Honey Cake 	 	Honey Candy 	 	Golden Banana Cream Pie	
Pets hatched with magic hatching potions prefer any type of food, making it easier to raise them into mounts.
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