Golden Apple

The golden apple is a special food item that bestows beneficial effects.

The enchanted golden apple, sometimes also referred to as the notch apple or god apple, is a rare variant of the golden apple that has stronger effects.

Natural generation
Even though the chance of finding one in a mineshaft chest is the lowest, it is typically the best place to search because it tends to have more chests than the other structures.

Usage
To eat a golden apple or an enchanted golden apple, press and hold while it is selected in the hotbar. Both restore points of hunger and 9.6 hunger saturation.

The golden apple provides:
 * Absorption I for 2 minutes (providing points of absorption health)
 * Regeneration II ( every 25 ticks, × 0.4 per second) 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 level II $$ or V $$ for 30 seconds ($$, is restored every 25 ticks,  × 0.4 per second) for 20 seconds (long enough to heal  points of damage; $$,  is restored every 6 ticks,  × 1.66 per second)
 * Fire Resistance I for 5 minutes
 * Resistance I (20% reduced damage from all sources except the void) for 5 minutes

Curing zombie villagers
A golden apple and a potion of weakness can be used to convert a zombie villager into a regular villager.

Horses
Golden apples and enchanted 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.

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Trivia

 * The damage tag of an enchanted apple obtained $$ is 1.
 * Along with one of the Suspicious Stew varieties, they are the only food source in the game that directly restores health points when eaten.