Nectar making, why is this the "best" recipe?

[eachna]

I was reading through the assorted nectar pages in the guide and something struck me.

The "best" (most valuable) nectar recipe is 9 Lift fruit, 1 Pomegranate.

Due to the internal magic of the system, it's worth more than 10 life fruit.

I don't understand why this works out to be the best? I mean, why not the 10 life fruit, 1 Flame Fruit. Or one of the special grapes. Or even a Pomelo. Why do you have to go more than halfway down the list before you hit the "best" single fruit to mix with 9 LF? Once you go past this magic combo, the other top blends seem to make more sense.

I know much of the dissection of the code is speculative, but, I thought I would ask.

Individual Fruit values (as per the Guide):
Life Fruit: 40
Flame Fruit: 32.6
Cranerlet Nuala Grapes: 29.1
Gralladina Fran Grapes: 21.7
Pomelo: 21.7
Meloire Grapes: 18.1
Cherry: 16.3
Avornalino Grapes: 14.5
Plum: 12.7
Lime: 12.7
Watermelon: 12.7
Pomegranate: 10.9
Cherimola Blan Grapes: 9.1
Renoit Grapes: 9.0
Apple: 5.4
Grapes: 5.4

[Metropolis Man]

I doubt anyone will be able to provide you with a solid reason as to why that recipe turned out to be the money-making king for nectar making. It just is. It's an element of randomness that EA added to determine final value and it's pretty cool.

[Darkstone]

Well, the Pomegranate is most popularly associated with Persephone, Queen of the Underworld.

So the best nectar is made up from the Fruit of Life, with just a touch of Death.

This means something.

Or not.

[eachna]

Hmmm...not a bad speculation .

Gwen