Panaloaf Sweetener

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Panaloaf Sweetener is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Garden Beet Sugar ×4 — which resolves to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 12 units, plus 26 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,221 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,194 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 14 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 12 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Fire Crystal, 7 Lightning Crystal and 7 Water Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 80 and Culinarian to Lv 72 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 3 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Garden Beet Sugar has the widest use: 21 recipes call for it, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.