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Processed Meat

Processed Meat is a food item in No Man's Sky. To cook it, combine Meaty Chunks x1 in a Nutrient Processor.

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1Meaty Chunksmakes11Processed Meat

Nutrient Processor

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Processed Meat

1 batch: 1 Meaty Chunks in a Nutrient Processor makes 1.

Where to find Processed Meat

You don't find Processed Meat lying around. You make it: 1 raw meat in a Nutrient Processor makes 1 Processed Meat.

18 raw meats work, including Meaty Chunks, Raw Steak, Meaty Wings, Diplo Chunks and Scaly Meat. The game describes every one of them as harvested from the corpse of the creature that once contained it, so you get them from hunting creatures.

Processed Meat is a stepping stone. Stews, pies and Smoked Meat start from it, listed below.

How to cook Processed Meat18 recipes

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About

A refined food product, created in the Nutrient Processor. Food such as this can be highly valuable. It has both the identifying shapes and aromas of an actual food item, in stark contrast with conventional nutrition paste or pellets.

Can be consumed as it stands or subjected to further processing.

Details

Legality
Legal
Effect
Life Support
Reward
Life Support +20 recharge
Data updated
2026-10-28

What can you cook from Processed Meat?22 recipes

What can you craft with Processed Meat?1 item

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