Minecraft Wiki:Projects/Raw and cooked food/Potato

Potatoes are food items that can be planted, consumed raw, or cooked in a furnace. Baked Potatoes are a cooked variant of potatoes. Poisonous Potatoes are potatoes that can poison the player.

Zombies
Zombies have a rare chance of dropping a potato when killed by the player.

Natural generation
Village farm plots have a 20% chance of being potatoes.

Farming
When farmed, potatoes will take 8 stages to grow. However, there are only 4 distinct textures, so only 4 visible stages: every two stages have the same texture, except that growth stage 7 keeps the same appearance as stages 5–6, so that only stage 8 has the final, 'mature' appearance.

Fully grown potato crops drop 1 to 4 potatoes (about $2 5/7$ per crop harvested on average) and have a 2% chance of dropping an additional poisonous potato. Potato yield can be increased using a tool enchanted with fortune. Bone meal can be used to mature the potato to its last stage of growth.

Smelting
Potatoes (not poisonous potatoes) can be cooked in a furnace to make baked potatoes.

Food
To eat a potato, press and hold while a potato is selected in the hotbar. Eating a potato restores hunger and 0.6 saturation. Eating a baked potato restores hunger and 6 hunger saturation. Eating a poisonous potato restores and 1.2 saturation, are and has a 60% chance of applying 4 seconds of the Poison effect (draining ).

Breeding
Pigs will follow and can be bred by a player holding a potato.

Villagers can pick up potato items to become willing, which will allow them to breed. Villagers require 12 potatoes to become willing.

Trading
Villager farmers will buy 15-19 potatoes for an emerald as one of their initial tier trades.