Herb

Collecting and using gardening skill to acquire new herbs and coffee beans included in The Sims 3: University Life give a wide array of beneficial effects when eatten and thrown into bonfires. These effects, however, are not always a guaranteed success. When a sim adds herb to a group meal, getting a negative effect once does not necessarily mean that every remaining serving will also give a negative effect and vice-versa.

Herb Enhanced Group Meals
Controls were done with a young adult female sim with rank 10 Rebel, Jock, and Nerd, as well as maxed out cooking, logic, science, and charisma. The results are as follows: