Melon Slice

A melon slice is a food item that can be eaten by the player.

Drops
Melon slices can be obtained by breaking (harvesting) melons using any tool or by hand. Axes, followed by swords, are the fastest tools for harvesting melons. A melon will drop 3–7 melon slices, when broken; by hand, using a tool, or after being broken by the movement of a piston.

Breaking a melon with a tool enchanted with Fortune will increase the potential number of drops by 1 slice per level, up to a maximum of 9 slices.

Breaking a melon using an item with the Silk Touch enchantment will cause the melon to drop a melon block rather than melon slices. Using silk touch provides a guaranteed more yield, per item harvested, than other methods (a melon being equivalent to 9 melon slices), except Fortune enchantment, which may drop.up to 9 melon slices, as above.

After obtaining with silk touch, a melon block can then be converted to melon slices, however, different processing is required, in Java Edition and Bedrock Editions. To convert melon into melon slices:
 * In Java Edition; the melon must be placed and broken for a second time with a non-silk touch enchanted tool or piston, yielding 3 - 7 melon slices, negating most of the advantages of using silk touch the first time. (Resulting in the same number of melon slices as could have been obtained initially, with the added disadvantages of increased: processing, time taken and possible damage to tools (from breaking melons twice).

In both editions, It may be advantageous keeping melon slices as melons, conserving inventory and storage space, later converting melons to melon slices, as needed. Farmers also only accept whole melons for trade, so in that case, Silk Touch is more efficient.
 * In Bedrock Edition; exclusively, a melon can be converted into melon slices using a crafting table, yielding 9 melon slices. This maintains silk touch's higher yield, however, requires the conversion process, to convert a melon into melon slices.

Food
Eating a melon slice restores points of hunger and 1.2 points of hunger saturation.