Mutfruit

Mutfruit, short for mutated fruit appears in various forms throughout wastelands.

Background
Mutfruit or Malus maatta, is a mutated species of genus Malus which includes apples and crabapples. It can be found across the wastelands, such as in New California, grown in the former regions of Washington, D.C., Boston, in the Mojave, and Appalachia.

A ripe mutfruit has a sweet taste, and can be used as an ingredient in multiple dishes. They can be consumed directly or used to make a variety of items such as wasteland tequila, omelets, and even as a source of micronutrients for ailing patients, including ghouls. In the Capital Wasteland, the fruit is described as perishable, needing to be examined before use as it can grow mold.

In the Commonwealth, the dwellers of Vault 81 trade for mutfruit with the outside world, and use it to make special occasion desserts such as pie. On the other side of the vault, Curie's experimentation with the mutfruit yields a unique mutfruit, strain 17. She explains that the fruit has a particular sugar compound that stimulates platelet production to close wounds, but not when grown in the wild. By genetically breeding the plant in sterile conditions, she is able to use the new strain to create a next generation stimpak. However, some wasteland chemists have formulated methods to utilize the citric acid from mutfruit to upgrade regular stimpaks into super stimpaks.

Fruit


A green variant found in New California.

Regular


Commonly found throughout the wasteland, sometimes having absorbed radiation, appearing as irradiated mutfruit.

Regular


Commonly found throughout the wasteland, appearing as fresh mutfruit when grown in Vault 88.

Crunchy


A crunchy variant. Wasteland cooks have harnessed its properties for the wasteland omelet. Sometimes having absorbed radiation, the fruit appears as irradiated crunchy mutfruit.