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 I 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 IV for 2 minutes (providing points of absorption health), Regeneration II ( every 25 ticks,  × 0.4 per second) for 20 seconds, Fire Resistance I for 5 minutes and Resistance I (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.This should be retested in 1.9.

Curing zombie villagers
A regular golden apple and a potion of weakness 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.