Potato

Potatoes are food items that can be planted, consumed raw, or cooked in a furnace to make baked potatoes.

Potatoes are a rare drop from zombies, and are found as crops in Villager farms. Along with carrots, potatoes require farmland in order to grow, but do not have an accompanying seed item. A potato item is instead planted directly in farmland, and upon maturing will yield 1 - 4 identical potato items which can again be used or replanted.

In Pocket Edition, pigs can be bred using 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 and have a 2% chance of dropping an additional poisonous potato. As of Minecraft 1.5, potato yield can now be increased using a tool with the Fortune enchantment; previously Fortune had no effect on potatoes. Currently, potatoes can be found as a rare drop from zombies and also in NPC Villages alongside wheat and carrots. Bone meal can be used to mature the potato to its last stage of growth.

Usage
To eat a potato, right-click and hold while a potato is selected in the hotbar. Eating a potato restores hunger and 0.6 hunger saturation.

As a cooking ingredient
Baked potatoes can be obtained by cooking the raw potatoes in a furnace with some kind of fuel.