Types of food and how to eat food in Minecraft 

Food is an essential part of Minecraft because it helps your character survive, stay stable, and avoid fatigue and exhaustion. Foods can be found from animals, plants, and cooking. 

To know exactly when to give your character food, notice the bar. The hunger bar is fully displayed with 10 pieces of thigh, appearing right on the items bar. 

Actions that the character performs will reduce the hunger bar such as: running fast, breaking blocks or attacking. 

When you have 9 thighs, the health bar will automatically be restored. If the hunger bar drops to 6, the player will lose the ability to run fast. Once your hunger bar is exhausted, your health will decrease continuously until you die. Also, once your hunger bar is full, you can’t eat any more. 

So, you probably know the importance of food in Minecraft, right? Now, read on to know types of food in Minecraft and how to eat them. 

Types of food in Minecraft 

The list below lists some useful foods and instructions on how to obtain them. If you’re starting a new game, try to find the best foods at the top of the list, they’re easy to find and offer quite a bit of value. 

• Raw pork/beef: Killing a pig or cow will give you this meat. If you eat it right away it won’t give you as many hunger units, baking it will be more effective. 
• Cooked pork/beef: After being grilled in the oven or campfire, this type of meat will immediately help you increase hunger by 4 units. 
• Lamb: Dropped when killing sheep. 
• Cooked lamb: Provides 4 hunger points. 
• Raw chicken: Avoid eating raw chicken unless you are very hungry. This type of meat has a 30% chance of being poisoned, leading to a reduction in hunger. 
• Cooked chicken: Provides 3 hunger units. 

• Stewed Mushrooms: Restores 3 hunger units, each compartment can only hold one bowl of stewed mushrooms. 
• Bread: Bread is created from rice, increasing hunger by 2.5 points. 
• Cookies: Cookies are made from wheat and cocoa beans. Only restores 1 hunger point per piece. 
• Carrots: Carrots are found in villages or killing zombies. One tuber provides 2 hunger points. 
• Potatoes: Potatoes are also found in the village, eaten raw only providing 0.5 hunger units. 
• Baked potatoes: Gives 1.5 – 2 hunger points. 
• Melon Piece: Only gives you 1 hunger unit, but watermelon is quite easy to find in the rainforest. 
• Red Apple: Apples fall when you destroy trees, providing 2 units of food 
• Golden apple: You combine red and yellow apples to create this type of apple. When eaten, it brings 2 units of hunger, quick recovery, increased armor, and fire resistance. 
• Live fish: You get it when fishing, but when you eat it, it doesn’t bring much value. 
• Cooked fish: Restores 2 hunger units. 
• Pumpkin cake: Made from eggs (laid by chickens), sugar (cane), and pumpkin, providing 4 hunger units. 
• Cake: 3 buckets of milk, 2 sugar, 3 wheat and 1 egg. The cake needs to be placed on the ground, when eating you click on it. 
• Rotten Meat: Collected when killing zombies, giving an 80% chance of being poisoned. 
• Spider eyes: Dropped when killing spiders, eating them will cause poisoning. Spider eyes are mainly used to make medicine. 

How to eat food in Minecraft 

• Assuming you have food in your inventory, first press E to open the inventory. Then, use the mouse to drag the food down to the item bar. 

• Next, use the number keys 1, 2, 3,… to choose to hold the dish in your hand. Then hold down the right mouse button, the character will start bringing food up and eating. 

• A few seconds later the food will be reduced by 1 unit and the hunger bar will be restored. 

How to cook food in a furnace 

Just like real life, food is more delicious and nutritious when cooked. You need a furnace or campfire to cook food. 

• Collect raw meat by killing animals. 

• Use the crafting table to create a furnace from 8 Cobblestones according to the recipe below. To get Cobblestone, you must use the Pickaxe to break the Stone block. 

• Place the furnace on the ground and right click on it. 

• After that, you will have a cooked meat. 

*Note: the oven can only cook 1 unit of food at a time, you can put a maximum of 64 units in the oven. In addition, each burning fuel has different values, coal will burn longer than wood.