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.

Salient green is a universal and easily convertible nutrient source. It is derived from 11 plant types through a process at the Biological research station. After conversion into salient green the substance can be converted back into the original form, or one of several different plants via cooking it.

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:

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.