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.

Natural generation
Regular golden apples can be found in chests in dungeons and strongholds. Each chest has about a 0.66% chance to contain a golden apple.

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.

Video
Note: This video is outdated; since, golden apples now require gold ingots and blocks of gold instead of golden nuggets and gold ingots.