Food items in Minecraft are primarily used as a way to regenerate hunger, which in turn helps regenerate HP. Some food items may also have special effects that buff or debuff players. Read on to learn about the different kinds of food available to eat in Minecraft.

List of All Food Items

Crops

List of Items
Potato	Poisonous Potato	Melon Slice	Glow Berries
Sweet Berries	Golden Carrot	Golden Apple	Enchanted Apple
Chorus Fruit	Carrot	Beetroot	Apple

Crops are food items that can be grown and harvested within the world. These are typically fruits or vegetables, that can prove effective for a quick fix, but don't restore as much hunger as meat or fish.

Meat

List of Items
Rotten Flesh	Raw Porkchop	Raw Mutton	Raw Rabbit
Raw Chicken	Raw Beef

Meat food items are typically dropped by slain mobs. They can be eaten raw, but most of them would be better if cooked.

Fish

List of Items
Tropical Fish	Raw Salmon	Pufferfish	Raw Cod

Fish food items can be collected by fishing in water. Pufferfish also has an added benefit of being a useful potion ingredient.

Cooked Food

List of Items
Cooked Salmon	Cooked Rabbit	Cooked Porkchop	Cooked Mutton
Cooked Cod	Cooked Chicken	Steak

When meat or fish is cooked, they become more effective at replenishing hunger than just their raw counterparts.

Crafted Dishes

List of Items
Suspicious Stew	Rabbit Stew	Pumpkin Pie	Mushroom Stew
Dried Kelp	Cookie	Bread	Beetroot Soup
Baked Potato

A few other dishes don't have to be cooked, and instead can be prepared by crafting them with different ingredients.

Other

List of Items
Spider Eye	Milk

Spider Eye can be eaten but will trigger poison,while Milk can be drank to remove all status effects on a player.

Cake

Cake, while not an individual Item, is also considered Food and restores Hunger. When placed as a block, players may consume the cake one slice at a time.

How Food Affects Hunger

Food Restores Hunger

Eating Food restores Hunger, with some food restoring more hunger points than others. Certain types of foods can also keep you full for longer, which lessens the need to continuously eat and carry plenty of food items. It is important to keep full to continuously regenerate health.

Based on our observation, cooked food and golden food (such as Golden Apples and Golden Carrots) tend to be better at restoring hunger and keeping you full than uncooked food.

Minecraft Related Guides

List of All Items

Item Subcategories
Food	Tools	Arrows
Armor	Weapons	Materials
Decorations	Transportation	Potions
Mob Eggs	Records	Dyes