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Hunger and Saturation

Raw (left) and cooked (right) chicken Chicken Health points 4 () Size Adult: Height: 0.7 Blocks Width: 0.4 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.35 Blocks Width: 0.2 Blocks Spawn Solid surfaced blocks with a minimum of two block spaces above them A 1/8 . Raw chicken can give you food poisoning See the gameplay mechanic. For the status effect, see Status effect#Hunger. The Food Bar is seen on the right, opposite the Health Bar. Hunger is an aspect of Minecraft that governs several .

Players have two different food statistics, only one of which is visible: The hunger level (visible), and the saturation level (invisible).

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, you can tell that your 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.

A player`s current saturation level can never exceed their current hunger level. A player at a hunger level of 5, for instance, can only be at a maximum of 5 saturation. This is important to remember when choosing which foods to eat for the most efficient use of food: Highly saturating foods/low hunger-restoring foods should be eaten when the hunger bar is more full, especially when the bar has begun jittering. If you eat highly saturating foods when the bar is low, saturation points are likely wasted, since saturation level can never exceed hunger level.

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.

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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.

Foods

Name	Icon	Food Points	Saturation restored	Effective Quality	Saturation ratio	Status effect(s)	Source(s)
Apple		4 ()	2.4	6.4	0.6	None	Destroyed/despawned oak or dark oak leaves Stronghold, village, igloo and bonus chests Receive 5–7 for 1 emerald in a tier 3 trade with a farmer
Baked Potato		5 ()	6	11	1.2	None	Cooking a potato in a furnace
Beetroot		1 ()	1.2	2.2	1.2	None	Harvesting beetroot crops
Beetroot Soup		6 ()	7.2	13.2	1.2	None	Crafting a bowl together with beetroots
Bread		5 ()	6	11	1.2	None	Crafting from wheat Dungeon, stronghold, village, abandoned mineshaft, woodland mansion and bonus chests Receive 2–4 for 1 emerald in a tier 1 trade with a farmer Farmers who drop bread after harvesting wheat
Cake (slice)		2 ()	0.4	2.4	0.2	None	Consume one slice of cake Cake Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable No (Yes, 64 in Console Edition) Flammable No Drops None Data values Block dec: 92 hex: 5C bin: 1011100 Item dec: 354 hex: 162 bin: 101100010 Name
Cake (whole)		14 ()	2.8	16.8	0.2	None	Crafting from wheat, eggs, sugar, and milk Milk Type Food/Drink Restores None; Cancels all status effects Cookable No Renewable Yes Stackable No First appearances See History Data values PC: dec: 335 hex: 14F bin: 101001111 PE: dec: 3251 hex: 1451 bin: 1010001011 Name PC: milk_bucket PE: bucket A Receive 1 for 1 emerald in a tier 4 trade with a farmer
Carrot		3 ()	3.6	6.6	1.2	None	Killing zombies Harvesting carrot crops
Chorus Fruit		4 ()	2.4	6.4	0.6	The player may be teleported randomly, as described at Enderman#Teleportation.	Breaking chorus plants
Clownfish		1 ()	0.2	1.2	0.2	None	Fishing Rare drop from guardians
Cooked Chicken		6 ()	7.2	13.2	1.2	None	Cooking a raw chicken Killing chickens with fire Receive 6–8 for 1 emerald in a tier 2 trade with a butcher
Cooked Fish		5 ()	6	11	1.2	None	Cooking a raw fish Receive 6 for 1 emerald + 6 raw fish in a tier 2 trade with a fisherman
Cooked Mutton		6 ()	9.6	15.6	1.6	None	Cooking raw mutton Killing sheep with fire
Cooked Porkchop		8 ()	12.8	20.8	1.6	None	Cooking a raw porkchop Killing pigs with fire Receive 5–7 for 1 emerald in a tier 2 trade with a butcher
Cooked Rabbit		5 ()	6	11	1.2	None	Cooking raw rabbit Killing rabbits with fire
Cooked Salmon		6 ()	9.6	15.6	1.6	None	Cooking a raw salmon
Cookie		2 ()	0.4	2.4	0.2	None	Crafting from wheat and cocoa beans Receive 6–10 for 1 emerald in a tier 4 trade with a farmer
Golden Apple		4 ()	9.6	13.6	2.4	Regeneration II for 5 seconds Absorption for 2 minutes	Crafting from an apple and gold ingots Desert temple, dungeon and abandoned mineshaft, stronghold, woodland mansion and igloo chests
Enchanted Golden Apple		4 ()	9.6	13.6	2.4	Regeneration II for 20 seconds Absorption IV for 2 minutes Resistance for 5 minutes Fire Resistance for 5 minutes	Crafting from an apple and blocks of goldPocketand Console editions Desert temple, dungeon, woodland mansion and abandoned mineshaft chests
Golden Carrot		6 ()	14.4	20.4	2.4	None	Crafting a carrot with gold nuggets
Melon		2 ()	1.2	3.2	0.6	None	Harvesting a melon block
Mushroom Stew		6 ()	7.2	13.2	1.2	None	Crafting with a bowl and one of each mushroom Using a bowl on a mooshroom
Poisonous Potato		2 ()	1.2	3.2	0.6	Poison for 4 seconds (60% chance)	Harvesting potato crops
Potato		1 ()	0.6	1.6	0.6	None	Killing zombies Harvesting potato crops
Pufferfish		1 ()	0.2	1.2	0.2 (−4.8)	Hunger III for 15 seconds Nausea II for 15 seconds Poison IV for 60 seconds	Fishing Rare drop from guardians
Pumpkin Pie		8 ()	4.8	12.8	0.6	None	Crafting with a pumpkin, an egg and sugar Receive 2–3 for 1 emerald in a tier 2 trade with a farmer
Rabbit Stew		10 ()	12	22	1.2	None	Crafting with a bowl, carrot, baked potato, mushroom and cooked rabbit
Raw Beef		3 ()	1.8	4.8	0.6	None	Killing cows and mooshrooms
Raw Chicken		2 ()	1.2	3.2	0.6 (-2.075)	Hunger for 30 seconds (30% chance)	Killing chickens
Raw Fish		2 ()	0.4	2.4	0.2	None	Fishing Killing guardians Killing polar bears
Raw Mutton		2 ()	1.2	3.2	0.6	None	Killing sheep
Raw Porkchop		3 ()	1.8	4.8	0.6	None	Killing pigs
Raw Rabbit		3 ()	1.8	4.8	0.6	None	Killing rabbits
Raw Salmon		2 ()	0.4	2.4	0.2	None	Fishing Rare drop from guardians Killing polar bears
Rotten Flesh		4 ()	0.8	4.8	0.2 (-1.8)	Hunger for 30 seconds (80% chance)	Killing zombies and zombie pigmen dungeon, igloo, desert and jungle temple chests Junk catch from fishing
Spider Eye		2 ()	3.2	5.2	1.6 (-2.2)	Poison for 4 seconds	Killing spiders and cave spiders Killing a witch
Steak		8 ()	12.8	20.8	1.6	None	Cooking raw beef Killing cows or mooshrooms with fire

1. ↑ Food Points + Saturation, which gives roughly how `long` the food will last. See hunger See the gameplay mechanic. For the status effect, see Status effect#Hunger. The Food Bar is seen on the right, opposite the Health Bar. Hunger is an aspect of Minecraft that governs several for details. This value will be reduced if you are near your food or saturation caps, as excess points of either type will be wasted.
2. ↑ ^{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.
3. ↑ 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.

Edible Items

Item	Hunger Restored	Additional Effects
Apple
Beetroot
Beetroot Soup
Bread
Cake	per slice total