Golden Apple

The golden apple is a special food item that can be eaten by the player.

Enchanted golden apples (sometimes known as notch apples) are a variant of golden apples that require more materials to obtain, but have stronger effects.

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 for 2 minutes (providing points of absorption health) and regeneration II for 5 seconds (long enough to heal  points of damage). The enchanted golden apple provides absorption for 2 minutes, regeneration V ( every 3 ticks, × 3⅓ per second) for 30 seconds, fire resistance for 5 minutes and resistance (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.

A total of health points can be restored by eating an enchanted golden apple. The healing speed is enough to endure nearly any damage except from the Void.

Curing zombie villagers
A regular golden apple 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.