Raw Chicken

Raw Chicken

Type	Food
Restores	30% chance of hunger (0:30)
Cookable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
First appearance	Beta 1.8
Data value	dec: 365 hex: 16D

Raw Chicken is a food item added in the 1.8 "Adventure Update". Formerly a chicken would only drop a feather, but now a Raw Chicken is dropped (usually along with a feather), and can be obtained by killing a chicken. The Raw Chicken heals 1 unit of Hunger points. It can be cooked into Cooked Chicken with a furnace. Chickens drop 1 Raw Chicken upon death. If you eat one of these without cooking them first, you have a 30% Chance of getting food poisoning.

[edit] As a crafting ingredient

Ingredients	Input » Output
Raw Chicken + Fuel

[edit] Behaviour

Raw chicken has a 30% chance of giving you food poisoning, which is the reason why it's better to cook it first. However, food poisoning just barely counteracts the raw chicken's food saturation, and will not even drain half a food point, making it a very minor drawback, especially when eating multiple raw chickens at once. Chickens drop a raw chicken upon death, and a Cooked Chicken if killed in a fire.

[edit] Gallery

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  In the inventory, which also shows how they stack up.

[edit] Trivia

• The poisoning effect is most likely based on the real life disease Salmonella, which is notorious for being present in uncooked meats, more commonly raw chicken and fish.
• Because food poisoning does not stack, and because raw chicken has a very high food saturation value, eating multiple raw chickens at a time will easily restore more hunger than the poison can take away.

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