Rotten Flesh

Rotten Flesh is an item from the 1.8 update dropped from zombies in place of feathers; eating it restores some of your hunger meter. However, rotten flesh has a 80% chance to cause food poisoning. Food poisoning seems to make your food 'need' go down faster as well.

Rotten flesh cannot be cooked or used in any crafting recipes.

Rotten flesh heals Wolves without poisoning or causing damage to them. This will be useful in that players can optionally feed them an item that has no other use at the moment so that they may save their cooked pork for themselves. Also, zombies will drop from 0-4 pieces of rotten flesh at one time.

Trivia
The food poisoning effect does not stack, so using rotten flesh from no food points can get you up to 9 food points.

Rotten flesh can be a good replacement for food if used in high dosage so it doesn't drain the food meter.