Raw Chicken

Raw Chicken Is an upcoming food item in the 1.8 "Adventure Update". As of the 1.8 leak, the Raw Chicken heals 1 unit of Hunger. It can be cooked into Cooked Chicken with a furnace. Chickens drop 1 Raw Chicken upon death.

As an overall change in Beta 1.8, chicken will be stackable to 64.



Behavior
According to Jeb, eating raw chicken will have a chance to give you a disease.

Trivia

 * The poisoning effect is most likely based on the real life disease Salmonella, which is notorious for being in raw meats, more commonly raw chicken.

Bugs
If you try to cook raw chicken by fueling the furnace with wooden planks and coal, the game will crash. This bug does not occur on Linux. (Fixed in 1.8 Prerelease 2)