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Food refers to any consumable items that, when eaten, restore hunger points and hunger saturation points, and sometimes cause status effects. They are essential to survival, as going without them eventually causes the player to starve, causing damage until reaching 10♥♥♥♥♥ in Easy difficulty, and 1♥ on Normal. Starvation damage kills the player in Hard and Hardcore Mode.

Food is eaten by holding use while having the food item selected in the hot bar or in the off-hand.

Cake cannot be eaten this way, and must instead be placed on a surface before being eaten.

With the exception of chorus fruit, golden apples, enchanted golden apples, honey bottles, milk, and suspicious stew[Java Edition only], food cannot be eaten when the hunger bar is completely full. In Creative Mode, any food can be consumed at any time.

All food items and ingredients can be stacked in the inventory slots, except for milk, rabbit stew, mushroom stew, beetroot soup, suspicious stew, and cake.‌[Java Edition only]

This page covers food items for players; blocks and items that can be eaten by other mobs are not included here.

Hunger and saturation[]

Main article: Hunger § Mechanics
Raw and Cooked Chicken Comparison

Raw (left) and cooked (right) chicken. Eating raw chicken can give the player food poisoning.

Players have two different food statistics, one of which is visible: The hunger level is visible, and the saturation level is not.

Saturation is the first statistic to decrease when a player performs energy-intensive actions, and it must be completely depleted before the visible hunger meter begins decreasing. Although the current saturation level is generally hidden, the player can tell that their saturation level is completely depleted if the visible hunger meter begins displaying a jittering effect.

Eating a food item replenishes a fixed number of hunger points and saturation points, based on the item. Some foods have a better ratio of saturation to hunger points replenished than others. Overeating the hunger bar does not overflow to saturation.

A player's current saturation level can never exceed their current hunger level. A player at a hunger level of 5, for example, can be at a maximum of 5 saturation. Food always restores hunger (raising the saturation limit) before supplying saturation. The most efficient use of food is to eat low-saturation food to fill the hunger bar, followed by high-saturation food to fill saturation. While a few hunger points may be wasted when eating nourishing food when nearly full, eating nourishing foods on a low hunger bar wastes even more points of saturation. Maximizing saturation increases the length of time (and/or the amount of damage healed) before the player needs to eat again.

Usage[]

Most foods can be eaten by holding down the right-click button with a food item in hand. It takes 1.61 seconds to eat most foods; dried kelp takes 0.865 seconds to eat. Additionally, a player can hold food in their offhand in Java Edition.

While eating, food particles form from the player's mouth correlated with their respective food item, and produces a munching noise. Eating also slows the user significantly.

Unlike other foods, cake has to be eaten by placing it, then right-clicking on its block form. Eating cake is instant and it has 7 edible slices, each giving 2 (🍗) hunger and 0.4 hunger saturation.

Nourishment value[]

Nourishment is defined as the ratio of saturation to hunger points restored. Foods with higher nourishment values should be eaten when the hunger bar is more full.

The "nourishment" table below can help by categorizing foods by their saturation-to-hunger restoration ratios. See the more detailed Foods table for the exact hunger and saturation statistics of each food.

Nourishment Value Food
Great 2.4 Enchanted Golden Apple
Good 1.6
Normal 1.2
Low 0.6 [note 1][note 2]
Poor 0.2 [note 2][note 1]

Foods[]

Name Icon Food points Saturation restored Effective quality
[note 3]
Saturation ratio Effect(s) Source(s)
Apple 4 (🍗🍗) 2.4 6.4 0.6 None
Baked Potato 5 (🍗🍗🍗) 6 11 1.2 None Cooking a potato in a furnace, smoker, or campfire
Beetroot 1 (🍗) 1.2 2.2 1.2 None
  • Harvesting beetroot crops
  • Farmer villager who drop beetroot after harvesting beetroot crop
Beetroot Soup 6 (🍗🍗🍗) 7.2 13.2 1.2 None
Bread 5 (🍗🍗🍗) 6 11 1.2 None
Cake (slice) 2 (🍗) 0.4 2.4 0.2 None Consume one slice of cake
Cake (whole) 14 (🍗 × 7) 2.8 16.8 0.2 None
Carrot 3 (🍗🍗) 3.6 6.6 1.2 None
Chorus Fruit 4 (🍗🍗) 2.4 6.4 0.6 The player may be teleported randomly, as described at Enderman#Teleportation. Breaking chorus plants. Found in The End.
Cooked Chicken 6 (🍗🍗🍗) 7.2 13.2 1.2 None
Cooked Cod 5 (🍗🍗🍗) 6 11 1.2 None
Cooked Mutton 6 (🍗🍗🍗) 9.6 15.6 1.6 None
Cooked Porkchop 8 (🍗🍗🍗🍗) 12.8 20.8 1.6 None
Cooked Rabbit 5 (🍗🍗🍗) 6 11 1.2 None
Cooked Salmon 6 (🍗🍗🍗) 9.6 15.6 1.6 None
Cookie 2 (🍗) 0.4 2.4 0.2 None
Dried Kelp 1 (🍗) 0.6‌[JE only]
0.2‌[BE only]
1.6‌[JE only]
1.2‌[BE only]
0.6‌[JE only]
0.2‌[BE only]
None
Enchanted Golden Apple Enchanted Golden Apple 4 (🍗🍗) 9.6 13.6 2.4 * Regeneration II for 20 seconds‌[Java Edition only]
Golden Apple 4 (🍗🍗) 9.6 13.6 2.4 * Regeneration II for 5 seconds
Glow Berries 2 (🍗) 0.4 2.4 0.2 None
  • Collected from cave vines
Golden Carrot 6 (🍗🍗🍗) 14.4 20.4 2.4 None
Honey Bottle 6 (🍗🍗🍗) 1.2 7.2 0.2 Clears Poison
Melon Slice 2 (🍗) 1.2 3.2 0.6 None
Mushroom Stew 6 (🍗🍗🍗) 7.2 13.2 1.2 None
Poisonous Potato 2 (🍗) 1.2 3.2 0.6 Poison for 5 seconds (60% chance)
Potato 1 (🍗) 0.6 1.6 0.6 None
Pufferfish 1 (🍗) 0.2 1.2 0.2
(−4.8)[note 4]
* Hunger III for 15 seconds
Pumpkin Pie 8 (🍗🍗🍗🍗) 4.8 12.8 0.6 None
Rabbit Stew 10 (🍗🍗🍗🍗🍗) 12 22 1.2 None
Raw Beef 3 (🍗🍗) 1.8 4.8 0.6 None
Raw Chicken 2 (🍗) 1.2 3.2 0.6
(-2.075)[note 4]
Hunger for 30 seconds (30% chance)
Raw Cod 2 (🍗) 0.4 2.4 0.2 None
Raw Mutton 2 (🍗) 1.2 3.2 0.6 None
Raw Porkchop 3 (🍗🍗) 1.8 4.8 0.6 None
Raw Rabbit 3 (🍗🍗) 1.8 4.8 0.6 None
Raw Salmon 2 (🍗) 0.4 2.4 0.2 None
Rotten Flesh 4 (🍗🍗) 0.8 4.8 0.2
(-1.8)[note 4]
Hunger for 30 seconds (80% chance)
Spider Eye 2 (🍗) 3.2 5.2 1.6
(-2.2)[note 5]
Poison for 5 seconds
Steak 8 (🍗🍗🍗🍗) 12.8 20.8 1.6 None
Suspicious Stew 6 (🍗🍗🍗) 7.2 13.2 1.2 The following for 3-11 seconds, depending on the flower used:
Suspicious Stew (Together with Saturation) 13 (🍗 × 6.5) 21.2 34.2 1.6307692307692 Effect of Saturation already added to total points restored
Sweet Berries 2 (🍗) 0.4‌[JE only]
1.2‌[BE only]
2.4‌[JE only]
3.2‌[BE only]
0.2‌[JE only]
0.6‌[BE only]
None
Tropical Fish 1 (🍗) 0.2 1.2 0.2 None
  1. a b [Java Edition only]
  2. a b [Bedrock Edition only]
  3. Food Points + Saturation, which gives roughly how long the food can last. See hunger for details. This value is reduced if the player is near the food or saturation cap, as excess points of either type are wasted.
  4. a b c Average expected food quality if food poisoning isn't cured. Food poisoning lasts 30 seconds from the last food that inflicted it, and drains nearly 2 shanks of hunger over that duration. The loss comes from saturation before visible hunger.
  5. Food quality if poison isn't cured; healing the damage from poison quickly drains the hunger bar.

Ingredients[]

The following items cannot be eaten on their own. Instead, they are used to craft consumable food items.

Name Icon Used to make Source(s) Notes
Bowl Mushroom Stew
Cocoa Beans Cookies
Egg
  • Laid by chickens
  • Found in village fletcher chests
Milk Bucket Cake Can also be consumed to clear status effects
Brown Mushroom and Red Mushroom Mushroom Stew
Flower Suspicious Stew
Pumpkin Pumpkin Pie
Sugar
Wheat
Gold Nugget Golden Carrot
Gold Ingot Golden Apple
Honey Block Honey Bottle

Sounds[]

Java Edition:

SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
EatingPlayersWhile a player is eating somethingentity.generic.eatsubtitles.entity.generic.eatvaries [sound 1]0.8-1.216
EatingFriendly CreaturesWhen a player finishes eating somethingentity.generic.eatsubtitles.entity.generic.eat1.00.6-1.416
BurpPlayersWhen a player finishes eating somethingentity.player.burpsubtitles.entity.player.burp0.50.9-1.016
  1. Can be 0.5, 1.0, or 1.5

Bedrock Edition:

SoundSourceDescriptionResource locationVolumePitch
PlayersWhile a player is eating somethingrandom.eat0.5-1.10.8-1.2
PlayersWhen a player finishes eating somethingrandom.burp0.50.9-1.0

Achievements[]

Icon Achievement In-game description Actual requirements (if different) Gamerscore earned Trophy type (PS4)
PS4 Other
Bake BreadTurn wheat into bread.Pick up bread from a crafting table output.15GBronze
The LieBake a cake using: wheat, sugar, milk, and eggs.Pick up a cake from a crafting table output.30GBronze
Delicious FishCatch and cook a fish!Pick up a cooked cod after cooking it in a Furnace, Smoker, Campfire, or Soul Campfire. Doesn't work if the block used is hooked up to a hopper, as the player is not getting the item directly from the output.15GSilver
OverpoweredEat an Enchanted Apple30GSilver
Pork ChopCook and eat a pork chop.10GBronze
Iron BellyStop starvation using Rotten Flesh.Eat a piece of rotten flesh while starving (zero hunger points).20GBronze
Rabbit SeasonCook and Eat Rabbit Meat15GBronze
CastawayEat nothing but dried kelp for three in-game daysEat dried kelp once; in the following three in-game days, eat nothing but dried kelp.20GBronze
Time for StewGive someone a suspicious stew.20GBronze

Advancements[]

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Resource location
Advancement-fancy-rawA Furious Cocktail
Have every potion effect applied at the same time Local BreweryHave all of these 17 status effects applied to the player at the same time: The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement.nether/all_potions
Advancement-fancy-rawHow Did We Get Here?
Have every effect applied at the same time A Furious CocktailHave all of these 33 status effects applied to the player at the same time: The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement.
This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
nether/all_effects
Advancement-plain-rawHusbandry
The world is full of friends and food Consume anything that can be consumed.husbandry/root
Advancement-plain-rawFishy Business
Catch a fish HusbandryUse a fishing rod to catch any of these fishes: husbandry/fishy_business
Advancement-fancy-rawA Balanced Diet
Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you A Seedy PlaceEat each of these 40 foods: Other foods and consumables can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.husbandry/balanced_diet

History[]


Java Edition Classic
June 14, 2009Notch discussed how food would work in survival mode: "Monsters will hurt you and take away from your health. The only way to regain health is to eat food. You get food from either hunting or from farming."
0.24_SURVIVAL_TESTMushrooms are now edible, making them the first food to be added in the game. At this point, food restores health instead of hunger, and are eaten instantly without sound or animation. Pigs drop them upon death.
Java Edition Indev
0.3120091231-2Added apples, which are currently non-functional.
20100110Apples are now edible, and restore 4♥♥ each.
?Mushrooms are no longer edible.
20100130Added mushroom stew, which restores 8♥♥♥♥ health.
20100206Added wheat and bread.
Mushroom stew now restores 10♥♥♥♥♥ health.
20100219Pigs now drop raw porkchops, which can be smelted to become cooked porkchops.
Java Edition Infdev
20100227-1Added golden apples. At this point, they were crafted with block of gold, and restored 20♥ × 10.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.8Added milk, which was at this point unobtainable and the player could not use it in any way.
v1.0.11Milk can now be obtained in the game, by milking a cow with an empty bucket.
v1.0.14With the addition of chickens, eggs are now in the game, but have no use. Chickens do not drop raw chicken at this point in time.
v1.2.0?Added pumpkins, but not pumpkin seeds.
Added raw fish and cooked fish, obtainable through fishing.
v1.2.3Eating food now functions correctly in multiplayer.
Java Edition Beta
1.2Added sugar and cake.
1.4Cocoa beans now appear naturally in the game; since Beta 1.2, they were available only through inventory editors.
Added cookies.
1.5Pigs now drop cooked porkchops if killed while on fire.
1.8Pre-releaseAdded melons, melon seeds, and pumpkin seeds.
Added raw chicken as a drop from chickens, which can be smelted into cooked chicken.
Added raw beef as a drop from cows, which can be smelted into steak.
Added rotten flesh as a new drop from zombies.
Added an eating animation, instead of food simply disappearing from the player's hand as if a block had been placed.
Added hunger bar; now food restores hunger instead of health.
Food now stacks in the inventory, with the exception of cake, mushroom stew, and milk.
Huge mushrooms were added as a new source for mushrooms.
With the addition of the hunger bar, golden apples now restore 10 (🍗🍗🍗🍗🍗) and give 30 seconds of regeneration, but do not heal health directly anymore.
Java Edition
1.0.0Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2Mushrooms can now be obtained from the mushroom island biome, via the huge mushrooms, random scattered mushrooms, or the new mooshrooms.
Milk can be used to nullify the effects of potions.
Spiders now drop eyes.
1.1releaseGolden apples are now made with gold nuggets instead of blocks of gold, restore 4 (🍗🍗) and give 4 seconds of regeneration.
1.3.112w21aAdded enchanted golden apples, which functioned like golden apples prior to 1.1 and had the same crafting recipe, but also gave resistance and fire resistance for 5 minutes each.
Cocoa Beans are now a crop, making all food items a renewable resource.
1.4.212w34aPotatoes and carrots can be obtainable from zombies (rare drop) or harvested.
Potatoes can be cooked to make baked potatoes
Harvesting potatoes may give 0–2 poisonous potatoes.
Carrots can be crafted into golden carrots.
Added pumpkin pie, making pumpkins a food ingredient.
1.7.213w36aAdded clownfish, raw and cooked salmon, and pufferfish.
1.814w02aBaked potatoes now restore 5 (🍗🍗🍗) hunger points instead of 6, with a corresponding reduction in saturation restored.
Carrots now restore 3 (🍗🍗) hunger points instead of 4, with a corresponding reduction in saturation restored.
14w27aAdded raw and cooked mutton, raw and cooked rabbit, and rabbit stew.
1.915w31aAdded chorus fruit, beetroot and beetroot soup.
Enchanted golden apples are no longer craftable, making them no longer renewable.
1.1318w07aAdded dried kelp, which is edible.
1.1418w43aAdded suspicious stew.
18w49aAdded sweet berries.
1.1519w34aAdded honey bottles.
19w35aHoney bottles now remove poison effects when consumed.
19w46aAll foods can now be consumed in Creative mode, including cake.
1.1721w05aAdded glow berries.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0Added the first food items: apples, bread, mushroom stew, raw beef, steak, raw chicken, cooked chicken, raw porkchops, and cooked porkchop.
v0.5.0Added melons, melon slices, and melon seeds.
v0.7.0Added milk and cake.
v0.8.0build 1Added pumpkin pie, carrots, potatoes, and baked potatoes.
build 2Added beetroots and beetroot soup.
v0.9.0build 1Potatoes and carrots can be obtainable from zombies (rare drop) or harvested.
Added cookies.
v0.11.0build 1Added rotten flesh as a new drop from zombies, at this time, it inflicts poison.
Added raw and cooked fish, clownfish, raw and cooked salmon, and pufferfish.
build 4Milk can be used to nullify the effects of potions.
v0.12.1build 1Eating food now restores hunger.
Spiders now drop eyes.
Added poisonous potatoes, golden apples, enchanted golden apples and golden carrots.
v0.13.0build 1Hunger restored by food now matches Minecraft PC.
Added raw rabbit, cooked rabbit, and rabbit stew.
v0.15.0build 1Added raw mutton and cooked mutton.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0alpha 0.17.0.1Added chorus fruit.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0beta 1.2.14.2Added dried kelp, which is edible.
1.7.0beta 1.7.0.2Food can now be eaten in creative mode and on peaceful difficulty.
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3Added sweet berries.
1.13.0beta 1.13.0.9Added suspicious stew.
1.14.0beta 1.14.0.1Added honey bottle.
1.17.0beta 1.16.220.52Added glow berries.
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