Salient Green

Salient green is a consumable item in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.

Characteristics
A glass jar containing green plant material broken down to its base components. This material is used as part of the nutrients required for Think Tanks as nourishment.

Location

 * Located throughout The Big Empty.
 * Can be created via the Biological Research Station located in The Sink. Each unit of salient green requires one unit of plant material.

Uses

 * With a Survival skill of 25, 1 salient green can be used to create 1 of the following plant consumables at a campfire or hot plate:
 * Banana yucca fruit
 * Barrel cactus fruit
 * Broc flower
 * Honey mesquite pod
 * Jalapeño pepper
 * Maize
 * Nevada agave fruit
 * Pinto bean pod
 * Prickly pear fruit
 * White horsenettle
 * Xander root
 * It is also very valuable and players can use the Biological research station to turn random plants into salient green and sell it for easy caps.

Behind the scenes

 * Salient green is a reference to the 1973 science fiction film Soylent Green. In the film, soylent green was an artificially processed food depicted as small green wafers or cubes. The name suggested it contained or was made from soy, lentil, and/or green algae, but in reality it was made from recycled dead human beings, due to the global ecosystem collapse.