Do food items inherit health value's

Many recipies have multiple optional ingredients per segment. What you choose determines its nutritional value, content, and type.

However, for the most part, meat is meat, it doesn’t matter where it comes from, whether it’s pre-canned or shot, and only minor differences persist. Only meat that’s truly different is mutant and tainted meat. Mutant meat you can still eat although it’s really unhealthy, tainted meat is simply poisonous unless you’re mutated for it.