Can microdata be interrupted?

Question

HTML

In the description page of micro-markup for recipes - yandex offers the following micro-markup for recipe ingredients:

<li itemprop="ingredients">
      1 курица
</li>
<li itemprop="ingredients" >
5 л пива
 </li>

Can I separate the quantity and name of the ingredient with tags? like this:

<li itemprop="ingredients">
     <span>курица</span><span>1 шт</span>
</li>
<li itemprop="ingredients" >
<span>пиво</span><span>5 л</span>
 </li>

Answer 1

And why not. Of course it is possible.
This is done for styling with css.