Essential foods are effectively foods that are essential for nutrition. This is important for tax considerations. There is a sliding scale sales tax system in Kaldus. Essential foods are taxed at 0%, so it is important to denote what is essential and what isn’t. For the most part, there are three essentials. Dairy, Crops, and Meat. These items in their purest form is considered as essential foods. This means that milk will be essential, but ice cream is not. The reason ice cream is not an essential is it also has sugar, and there is little to no nutritional benefit for consuming ice cream. There is however nutritional benefit for drinking milk.