Raw Chicken

Raw Chicken is a food item added in the 1.8 "Adventure Update". The Raw Chicken heals 1 unit of Hunger points. It can be cooked into Cooked Chicken with a furnace. Chickens drop 1 Raw Chicken upon death. If you eat one of these without cooking them first, you may get food poisoning.

Behaviour
Raw chicken has a 60% chance of giving you food poisoning, which is the reason why it's better to cook it first. Chickens usually drop 1 raw chicken upon death, and a Cooked Chicken if killed in a fire.

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.
 * When poisoned by eating a raw chicken your hunger bar turns a greenish color.