Konpeito ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Konpeito is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Beet Sugar ×2 — which resolves to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 7 units, plus 11 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,963 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 599 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 7 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Fire Shard, 2 Fire Cluster and 2 Water Cluster.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 64 intermediate up to the Lv 70 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

1 of the 3 raw materials matches a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 2 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Beet Sugar has the widest use: 10 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.