Pinto Bean Pod

The pinto bean pod is a consumable item in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
Pinto bean pods are used for crafting mole rat stew as well as for reducing Starvation in Hardcore mode. Pinto bean pods can only be obtained from plants or Salient Green, and the plants themselves are only found in two areas in the base game, making them moderately difficult to come by.

Crafting
This item can be crafted by the Courier.

Creation requirements

Locations

 * There are 17 plants along the banks of the Colorado River:
 * Three along the west shoreline between Blue Paradise Vacation Rentals and Smith Mesa Prospector Camp.
 * Two on the eastern shoreline due east of Cottonwood overlook.
 * Four more just north of there, east of Cottonwood Cove.
 * Five more a little farther north of those four, beginning just southeast of Ranger Station Echo. The last one is east of the Lucky Jim Mine and right beside the entrance to the deathclaw promontory.
 * Three more across the river from those five, on the west bank: one due east of the Lucky Jim Mine, one slightly northeast of Ranger Station Echo, and one due east Ranger Station Echo.
 * There are 67 plants available inside three greenhouses at the NCR sharecropper farms: 54 normal-sized plants in the two northwestern-most greenhouses, and 13 miniature plants in the southwestern-most greenhouse. Some will be counted as "stolen" but taking them will not result in Karma loss, and they will not have the stolen attribute when dropped.
 * A few plants can be found in Westside.
 * Dried version, one of the items converted from the seed package in the X-22 botanical garden.
 * One plant is available once the Biological research station has been upgraded after the completion of Field Research.