Golden Apple

The golden apple is a special food item that can be crafted and eaten by the player, providing temporary combat advantages.

An enchanted variant of it which gives even more powerful effects, known in the achievement as the Notch apple, may be very rarely found in chests and minecarts. In the Pocket and Console editions, this variant can be crafted.

Usage
To eat a golden apple, press and hold while it is selected in the hotbar. Both restore points of hunger and 9.6 hunger saturation.

The regular golden apple provides Absorption I for 2 minutes (providing points of absorption health) and Regeneration II ( every 25 ticks,  × 0.4 per second) for 5 seconds (long enough to heal  points of damage).

The enchanted golden apple provides Absorption IV for 2 minutes (providing points of absorption health), Regeneration II ( every 25 ticks,  × 0.4 per second) for 20 seconds (long enough to heal  points of damage), Fire Resistance I for 5 minutes and Resistance I (20% reduced damage from all sources except the Void) for 5 minutes.

Golden apples can be eaten even when the player's hunger bar is full.

Curing zombie villagers
A regular golden apple and a potion of weakness can be used to convert a zombie villager into a villager.

Horses
Both types of golden apples can be used to improve the chances of taming a horse by 10%, for breeding horses and for speeding up the growth of baby horses by 4 minutes.

Data values
Golden apples have the ID  (322) and are further defined by their damage value.