The golden carrot, the golden apple and the Enchanted Golden Apple top the rankings thanks to their saturation maximum. Here's the complete tier list to help you figure out what to farm first and never die from hunger.
Minecraft is one of the top 5 most-played video games in the world, and managing your food is essential for long-term survival.
The food tier list table in Minecraft
Here is the complete ranking of the food from Minecraft, from the most effective to the least filling. The column Value corresponds to satiety-to-hunger ratio : the higher it is, the longer the food keeps you full and delays the return of hunger.
| 🍕 Food | ❓ Value | 👉 Food |
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| Supernatural | 2,4 | Golden carrotGolden apple, Enchanted golden apple |
| Good | 1,6 | Cooked pork chop, Steak, Cooked lamb, Cooked salmon, Spider eye |
| Normal | 1,2 | Roast chicken, Cooked rabbit, Rabbit stew, Mushroom soup, Bread, Cooked cod and potatoes, Carrot, Beetroot, Beetroot soup |
| Weak | 0,6 | Dried seaweed, Pumpkin pie, Red apple, Raw beef, Raw pork chop, Raw lamb, Raw chicken, Raw rabbit, Potato and poisonous potato, Slice of watermelon, Chorus |
| Poor | 0,2 | Cake, Cookie, Rotten Meat, Raw Cod, Pufferfish and Tropical Fish, Raw Salmon, Sweet Berries, Glowing Berries, Vial of Honey |
Please note: the Enchanted Golden Apple is no longer available since version 1.9 (snapshot 15w44a). You can now only find it in chests in generated structures, such as the dungeons or abandoned mines.
What's the best food in Minecraft?
The podium belongs to the category supernatural, the one with the highest saturation and the best effects of the game :
- The golden carrot,
- The golden apple,
- The Enchanted Golden Apple.
These three foods are distinguished by the fact that they are made from’gold or their rarity in chests. Here are the details for each one, along with their hunger points, her saturation and its usefulness in survival situations.
supernatural food
The superfoods share two characteristics: one saturation exceptional and effects that cannot be obtained anywhere else in the game.
1. The Golden Carrot
The golden carrot displays one of the saturations the highest in the game with 14.4 points. Only the suspicious stew (made with dandelion or blue orchid) performs better on this specific criterion.
| 🥕 Golden carrot | ℹ️ Information | ❓ Obtaining | 👉 Use |
| Restore 3 hunger bars and 14.4 saturation points. |
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| Allows you to stop feeling the hunger for a good time. | |||
| Food expensive to produce. | |||
| Consume before a battle or a long exploration. | |||
| The only alchemical ingredient that can be used directly on a water vial. |
2. The golden apple
The golden apple is more affordable than the golden carrot. It's a little less filling, but offers real skincare benefits immediate.
| 🍎 Golden Apple | ℹ️ Information | ❓ Obtaining | 👉 Use |
| grant a Level 2 regeneration, which treats a heart every half-second. |
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| Gives the level of’absorption 2 and an extra heart of gold during 4 minutes. |
3. The enchanted golden apple
That's the very top of the rankings.
| 🪄 Enchanted Golden Apple | ℹ️ Information | ❓ Obtaining | 👉 Use |
| Offers a Level 2 regeneration which heals a heart every half-second. | Unavailable in the Crafting menu since the 1.9. You only pick it up in the coffers of generated structures, such as the dungeons. |
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| Provides a level of’absorption 8 for 2 minutes, or 8 Hearts of Gold more. | |||
| Offers a damage resistance received (except for nothing) during 5 minutes. | |||
| Restore 2 hunger bars. |
In practice, the Enchanted Golden Apple is the ultimate meal before a boss or a descent into the Nether.
For the daily newspaper, the golden carrot remains the best choice thanks to its high saturation and consistent manufacturing.
How do the other foods in Minecraft work?
Superfoods aren't always available, especially early in the game. Here's how each of the other categories works, from the most filling to the most trivial.
Good food
These foods restore a a large portion of the hunger bar and offer a high saturation. This is the ideal category for extended exploration and combat.
- Steak (cooked beef) and cooked pork chop : restore 4 hunger icons Each one. The best meat combination to keep you going for a long time.
- Roast Lamb : Cook starting on raw lamb to restore your appetite even more.
- Cooked salmon and cooked cod : perfect if you live near the water.
- Spider's Eye : Avoid if possible; it inflicts the poison effect for 4 seconds.
The saturation determines how long it takes before the hunger bar starts to go down again. The higher it is, the less often you eat.
Normal food
These foods are easier to obtain for a beginner player who doesn't yet have access to advanced resources. Some are also used as crafting ingredients or for raising animals.
- the bread (made with wheat) is one of the ingredients in the recipe for the cake.
- The carrot, the potato and the wheat are used to feed and breed the animals. Carrots attract pigs and rabbits.
- The baked potato It's easy to make: just bake it in the oven (or in the blast furnace) to earn hunger points.
- The mushroom soup is prepared using a bowl and a mushroom. The rabbit stew is obtained by combining roasted rabbit, carrot, mushroom, and bowl. The beet soup beet mix and bowl. These three soups They're quite filling, but they don't take up much space in your inventory.
Weak food
These foods restore very little hunger and of saturation raw. Most are better when cooked before eating.
- the raw beef, the raw pork chop, the raw lamb, the raw chicken and the raw rabbit can all be cooked to satisfy even greater hunger.
- Beware of raw chicken : he has 30 % of luck to give you that effect hunger. He prefers to cook it every time.
- The pumpkin pie restores a modest amount of hunger and does not provide any noticeable sense of fullness.
- The raw meat is still useful in some ways: it serves to Attracting and Caring for Wolves tamed.
Poor food
This table summarizes the nutritional value of the least cost-effective foods in terms of hunger points.
| 🍕 Food | ✅ Description |
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| Cake | Festive food to place on the floor (2 hunger points per share (7 shares). To be shared with other players. |
| cookies | Easy to make with wheat and cocoa beans, but only restores 2 hunger points. |
| Putrefied flesh | Restore 3 points of hunger, but presents a risk of 80 % to induce hunger. To be used only in emergencies. Useful for treating wolves. |
| Raw cod, raw salmon, pufferfish, and tropical fish | Cook it to earn more hunger points. Raw fish attracts the axolotls and dolphins. |
| Sweet berries | Commons in taiga biomes (2 hunger points). |
| Honey vial | Portable and easy to obtain (3 points of hungerheals 1 point of life). |
| Illuminated bays | Communes in the lush caves (2 hunger points). |
For a game of survival standard, start by cooking some steak or the pork chop. Then move on to the golden carrot As soon as you have gold available: this is the best choice for fighting the hunger over time.
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