Golden Apple

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

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 for 30 seconds, a fire resistance for 5 minutes and resistance 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.

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Note: This video is outdated; since, golden apples now require gold ingots and blocks of gold instead of golden nuggets and gold ingots.