Food

Food is items restoring food points (as shown in the food bar) and has a direct bearing on the player's health (see Hunger for more on effects). Excepting milk, cake, and mushroom stew, food items and ingredients can be stacked in inventory. Holding the "Use Item" button (default is Button 2, right mouse button) makes the player eat the food in their hand. With the exception of golden apples, food may not be eaten when the hunger bar is full. Note that cake must be placed like other blocks on a surface before being eaten.

[edit] Food

Eating food partly restores hunger (as shown in the bar) and to a hidden variable, saturation, which is an additional hunger bar, but one whose value will not exceed your current hunger level.

Name	Icon	Food Points	Source(s)	Saturation restored (additional effects)	Effective Quality[1] (Food Points + Saturation)
Bread			Crafting Dungeon chests Stronghold chests NPC Village chests	6	11
Cake		(six uses - per use)	Crafting	2.4 (six uses - 0.4 per use)	14.4 (six uses - 2.4 per use)
Cookie			Crafting	0.2	1.2
Melon Slice			Harvesting a melon block	1.2	3.2
Mushroom Stew			Crafting Using a Bowl on a Mooshroom	9.6	17.6
Raw Chicken			Killing chickens	1.2 (30% chance of food poisoning.)	3.2 (2.075)[2]
Cooked Chicken			Cooking a raw chicken Setting chickens on fire	7.2	13.2
Raw Beef			Killing cows	1.8	4.8
Steak			Cooking raw beef Setting cows on fire	12.8	20.8
Raw Porkchop			Killing pigs	1.8	4.8
Cooked Porkchop			Cooking a raw porkchop Setting pigs on fire	12.8	20.8
Raw Fish			Fishing	1.2	3.2
Cooked Fish			Cooking a raw fish	6	11
Red Apple			Stronghold chests Destroyed/despawned oak Leaves NPC Village blacksmith chests Dungeon chests	2.4	6.4
Golden Apple			Crafting Dungeon chests, Stronghold chests	9.6 (Health regeneration for 4 seconds.)	13.6
Rotten Flesh			Killing zombies and zombie pigmen	0.8 (80% chance of food poisoning.)	4.8 (1.8)[2]
Spider Eye			Killing spiders	3.2 (100% chance of getting poisoned.)	5.2

1. ↑ Roughly how 'long' the food will last. See hunger for details.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Average expected food quality if food poisoning isn't cured.

[edit] Nourishment Value

Nourishment is defined as the ratio of saturation to food points restored by a certain food item. To avoid wasting saturation points, more nourishing foods should be eaten when the hunger bar is more full.

Value	Food
2.4
1.6
1.2
0.6
0.2

[edit] Ingredients

The following items cannot be eaten on their own. Instead, they are crafted with other ingredients to produce certain food items.

Name	Icon	Source(s)	Used to make
Bowl		Crafting	Mushroom Stew
Cocoa Beans		Dungeon chests	Cookies
Chicken Egg		Laid by chickens	Cake
Brown Mushroom		Dark/shady areas Swamp biomes Mushroom biomes Breaking huge brown mushrooms	Mushroom Stew
Red Mushroom		Dark/shady areas Swamp biomes Mushroom biomes Breaking huge red mushrooms Using shears on a Mooshroom	Mushroom Stew
Sugar		Crafting sugar cane	Cake
Wheat		Harvesting mature wheat Found in dungeon chests	Bread Cake Cookies

While the following ingredients can be crafted with others, they can be consumed to induce or nullify certain effects on the player.

Name	Icon	Source	Effects	Used to make
Milk		Milking a Cow	Clears status effects	Cake

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[edit] History

Before Beta 1.8, food did not have an eating animation, simply disappearing from the player's hand as if a block had been placed. Food also restored a set amount of hearts instantly - a player could return from the brink of death during a fight almost immediately by consuming a few porkchops or bowls of stew. To keep a certain level of challenge to the gameplay, Notch prevented players from taking advantage of this instant recovery by ensuring food (with the exception of the ingredients) did not stack in the inventory.

When the Hunger Bar was added in Beta 1.8, food became an even more vital resource as the player was required to eat regularly to avoid dying of starvation and regenerate health after taking damage. With the exception of Cake, Milk and Mushroom Stew, food could now stack to 64 in the player's inventory. Both types of mushroom could now be farmed by using bonemeal on either individual mushroom to produce a Huge Mushroom that dropped more fungi when harvested.

The first Beta 1.9 pre-release revealed two new sources for mushrooms - an entire biome filled with Huge Mushrooms and the Mooshroom, a strange red cow with red mushrooms growing on its back that could be milked with a bowl to collect Mushroom Stew and shorn to harvest the red mushrooms. However Mooshrooms can only be found in Mushroom Biomes which are extremely rare and difficult to find.

In the second pre-release of Beta 1.9, Jeb said that Milk now acted as a "clear-everything drink"^[1] to nullify the effects of potions. Spiders also dropped eyes that could be crafted with sugar and a brown mushrooms to produce fermented spider eyes.

[edit] Trivia

• You can continue breaking blocks even while eating, the actions simply occur simultaneously.
• If eating while climbing vines/ladders, it will not slow down the climbing.
• You can eat while you are sleeping.
• The eating animation appears only in the first-person view.

[edit] References

1. ↑ http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/119842906528944129