Raw Chicken

Raw Chicken Was an added food item in the 1.8 "Adventure Update". As of the 1.8 leak, the Raw Chicken heals 1 unit of Hunger. It can be cooked into Cooked Chicken with a furnace. Chickens drop 1 Raw Chicken upon death.

As an overall change in Beta 1.8, chicken will be stackable to 64.



Behavior
According to Jeb, eating raw chicken will have a chance to give you a disease.

Trivia

 * The poisoning effect is most likely based on the real life disease Salmonella, which is notorious for being in raw meats, more commonly raw chicken.