Apple

Apples are food items which fill units of the hunger bar.

Obtaining apples
There are five sources of apples (excluding creative mode):
 * Oak leaves have 0.5% ($1/200$) chance of dropping an apple.
 * Chests in strongholds or villages.
 * The bonus chest.
 * Trading with villagers.
 * Killing Notch in multiplayer will drop an apple in addition to his inventory.

As a crafting ingredient
An apple can be used to craft a golden apple or an enchanted golden apple. Golden apples can regenerate health if eaten, as well as provide other useful effects such as Absorbtion. Enchanted Golden Apples provide Regenration II, Absorbtion, Fire Resistance and Resistance. These recipes don't work on Minecraft Pocket Edition.

Pros

 * Apples are a renewable resource and can be harvested alongside wood.
 * While the player is harvesting wood, they receive apples with next to no added effort.
 * Apples are needed to craft golden apples, which are extremely beneficial food items.
 * Apples can be a good source of food when a player first starts in a new world, as it doesn't consume time planting seeds or killing mobs.

Cons

 * Apples restore only four hunger.
 * Players will become hungry again quickly compared to eating bread or meat due to a low saturation value.
 * Apples take more effort to farm than other foods, and should generally be considered a by-product of wood harvesting.
 * Apples can be an unreliable food source, as even large trees may occasionally drop no apples.
 * Also, farming apples as food requires chopping the wood, then waiting for the leaves to decay on their own: On average, breaking 200 leaf blocks will use 5 food units, to produce one apple that only gives 4 units when eaten.

Trivia

 * The sprite of red apples was the same as used in Notch's game Legend of the Chambered.
 * In Pocket Edition the sprite of the apple still has the dark outline. There is also higher chance of drops from leaves.
 * When killed, Notch drops an apple.

Gallery
Manzana Roja Roter Apfel Pomme rouge Alma Rode appel Czerwone jabłko Красное яблоко 红苹果 pt-br:Red Apple