As the title says. Ive never understood why we cant eat berries. Have it recover as much food as like candy or jerky. I was confused when I first played Grounded 1 when I tried to eat them and couldnt.

i would say, if you do eat the berries, the skin should remain in your inventory, maybe before you dry it out you need to extract the berry meat, then you get the meat to eat and the skin for leather

Cool idea for berry meat and skin. But I totally agree, the fact that you can eat Aphid honeydew and not eat berries always confused me. I wouldn't expect it to be like a full meal, but, it's a survival game, sort of, foraging berries to not starve feels like it just belongs. 

As the teen, being forced to a scavenge and then hunt. You would think that Blueberries, a food that they are familiar with, sold at a grocery store, or even grown at a parent's home.  Would be juicy treat. Bringing up hunger and thirst meter marginally when eating a chunk. It could also be baked in the oven if you ground up grass seed into a type of flour and make "blueberry tart" or something equivalent. I definitely feel grinding grass seeds for flour could open up a whole bunch of new food recipes. I would love to see cherry tomatoes added to the community garden. Then grind tomato into tomato paste and use grass flour to make every teenager food staple "pizza".