Raw Chicken

Raw Chicken is a food item that heals 1 unit of hunger points. It can be cooked with a Furnace. Chickens drop a raw chicken upon death, and a cooked chicken if killed by fire. If the player eats raw chicken without cooking them first, the player has a 30% chance of getting food poisoning.

Effects
Raw chicken has a 30% chance of giving the player food poisoning, which is one reason why it's better to cook it first (the other being more food value). However, food poisoning just barely counteracts one raw chicken's food saturation, and will not even drain half a hunger shank. This makes it a very minor drawback, especially when eating multiple raw chickens at once. Because food poisoning does not stack, and because raw chicken has a very high food saturation value, eating multiple raw chickens at a time will easily restore more hunger than the poison can take away.

Trivia

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