Cookie

The cookie is an edible item that requires Cocoa Beans to craft, which appear in dungeon chests, or on Jungle trees off of Cocoa Plants.

A full stack of 64 cookies restores a total of 64 Hunger points (the same amount of hunger points as 16 Cooked Porkchops).

Advantages

 * Cookies are made in stacks of 8 from just a single cocoa bean and two wheat.
 * Since cookies can be stacked into large stacks (of 64 in the latest snapshot), they can be used to quickly restore many hunger points.
 * Cookies recover 1 hunger point. Before that build they only restored half a hunger point, the lowest in the game at the time.
 * Cookies can be eaten as soon as the player falls below 9 hunger points without any waste, meaning the player can constantly stay at a high enough hunger level to restore health.
 * Cocoa beans are easy to acquire hanging on jungle trees, making them much cheaper and worth the effort to get.

Disadvantages

 * A single cocoa produces enough cookies to restore the hunger meter as much as two cooked porkchops or steaks. However, porkchops/steaks are much easier to acquire, and a single one is easier to eat than eight cookies.
 * A full stack of cookies heals a total of 64 hunger points, where as a full stack of cooked porkchops/steaks heals 256 hunger points. For comparison, you'd need 256 cookies (4 full stacks of 64) to heal 256 hunger points.
 * Cookies have a quite low saturation level compared to cooked porkchops/steaks.
 * Melons have a similar food restoration and saturation level, but unlike cookies, can be farmed automatically using a BUD switch. Melons can also be directly crafted into seeds, where as cookies require wheat, cocoa beans, and jungle wood.