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Four Methods:Finding foodCrafting foodEating foodAvoiding food poisoning

Eating in Minecraft is essential to restore hunger points in your hunger bar. Your character's health level is impacted by whether or not you've eaten enough.


Method 1 of 4: Finding food

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    Find or select a food item. There is a variety of food items available on Minecraft, from apples to steak.
    • Many food items (and ingredients) can be stacked in your inventory. The only food items that cannot be so stacked are mushroom stew and milk.

Method 2 of 4: Crafting food

In some cases, food needs to be crafted to make it edible.

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    Craft the following food items:
    • Mushrooms become mushroom stew: use a bowl. Brown mushrooms can be turned into mushroom stew by breaking huge brown mushrooms (sourced from swamp biomes, dark or shady areas and mushroom biomes); use the same method for huge red mushrooms, plus using shears on a Mooshroom;
    • Cocoa beans: Turn cocoa beans into cookies. Break cocoa plants and craft with a dungeon chest;
    • Chicken eggs: Use chicken eggs (laid by chickens) to make cake. The same method is used for making pumpkin pie (harvest mature pumpkins which you've grown from seed or find pumpkins growing on their own accord);
    • Sugar: Must be turned into cake and cannot be eaten on its own. Craft it into cake (or pumpkin pie);
    • Wheat: Turn it into bread, cake or cookies; harvest when mature;
    • Gold: Can be turned into a golden apple or golden carrot (the latter cannot be eaten, only used for potion brewing). You'll need to craft 1 golden nugget, which has been dropped by the zombie pigman. Alternatively, craft 9 nuggets to get a golden apple. Also, using golden blocks instead of nuggets gives you an enchanted golden apple, aka the "Notch Apple".

Method 3 of 4: Eating food

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    Make sure that the hunger bar isn't already full. If so, the only food items that can be eaten are golden apples.
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    Place the food in your hand. It needs to be there before it can be consumed. To do this:
    • Hold the "Use Item"(Right) button.
    • Right click while the food item is in your hand. Your character will then eat it.
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    Note that different types of food have hidden different "nourishment values", or higher or lower abilities to "saturate" your character via the hunger bar. It is best to eat more nourishing (high value) foods when the hunger bar has higher fullness, so as not to waste the saturation points.
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    Know that when you notice the hunger bar rippling, it means that you are about to lose a hunger point, meaning you can eat again.

Method 4 of 4: Avoiding food poisoning

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    Beware! Some items of food that may seem edible carry a possibility of causing food poisoning. For example:
    • Poisonous potatoes
    • Raw chicken (a 30% chance of poisoning)
    • Rotten flesh (a 75% chance of poisoning)
    • Spider eye (a 100 percent chance of poisoning).


  • If you have cake to eat, it needs to be put on a surface before it can be eaten.
  • Milk (made from milking a cow) will clear status effects on the player. Milk is used to make cake.
  • You can eat while sleeping or climbing.
  • Each food item consumed heals a certain amount of hunger bar.
  • An animation of eating will only appear in first person view.
  • Only milk or potions can be consumed in Creative mode.


  • Rotten flesh, spider eyes, raw chicken and poisonous potatoes have a percentage of you getting poisoned if you eat them. Try to avoid these!
  • However, wolves can be encouraged to breed by feeding them rotten flesh, so it's not all bad!

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