Recipes

Food & hunger

Every food item compared by hunger, saturation and saturation ratio.

Every food in Minecraft restores two separate things: hunger, the visible drumstick bar, and saturation, a hidden value that has to run out before hunger starts dropping again. Saturation is what actually decides how long you can go between meals, which is why a steak beats a handful of bread even though the hunger numbers look similar. The table below is sorted by saturation.

Food & hunger
Food	Hunger restored	Saturation	Ratio	Stack size
Golden Carrot	6	14.4	2.4	64
Cooked Porkchop	8	12.8	1.6	64
Steak	8	12.8	1.6	64
Rabbit Stew	10	12	1.2	1
Golden Apple	4	9.6	2.4	64
Enchanted Golden Apple	4	9.6	2.4	64
Cooked Salmon	6	9.6	1.6	64
Cooked Mutton	6	9.6	1.6	64
Mushroom Stew	6	7.2	1.2	1
Cooked Chicken	6	7.2	1.2	64
Beetroot Soup	6	7.2	1.2	1
Suspicious Stew	6	7.2	1.2	1
Bread	5	6	1.2	64
Cooked Cod	5	6	1.2	64
Baked Potato	5	6	1.2	64
Cooked Rabbit	5	6	1.2	64
Pumpkin Pie	8	4.8	0.6	64
Carrot	3	3.6	1.2	64
Spider Eye	2	3.2	1.6	64
Apple	4	2.4	0.6	64
Chorus Fruit	4	2.4	0.6	64
Raw Porkchop	3	1.8	0.6	64
Raw Beef	3	1.8	0.6	64
Raw Rabbit	3	1.8	0.6	64
Melon Slice	2	1.2	0.6	64
Raw Chicken	2	1.2	0.6	64
Poisonous Potato	2	1.2	0.6	64
Raw Mutton	2	1.2	0.6	64
Beetroot	1	1.2	1.2	64
Honey Bottle	6	1.2	0.2	16
Rotten Flesh	4	0.8	0.2	64
Dried Kelp	1	0.6	0.6	64
Potato	1	0.6	0.6	64
Raw Cod	2	0.4	0.2	64
Raw Salmon	2	0.4	0.2	64
Cookie	2	0.4	0.2	64
Sweet Berries	2	0.4	0.2	64
Glow Berries	2	0.4	0.2	64
Tropical Fish	1	0.2	0.2	64
Pufferfish	1	0.2	0.2	64
Ominous Bottle	1	0.2	0.2	64