A Balanced Diet: How to Eat Every Food Item in Minecraft

A Balanced Diet requires you to eat every food item in Minecraft at least once. As of 1.21, there are around 40 different food items. Most are easy to obtain through farming and cooking, but a few require specific biomes, mob drops or even poison resistance. This guide lists every food and the most efficient way to eat them all.

Complete food checklist

Crop-based foods

• Apple
• Golden Apple
• Enchanted Golden Apple (found in dungeon, Mineshaft, Desert Temple, Woodland Mansion and Ancient City chests)
• Bread
• Carrot
• Golden Carrot
• Potato
• Baked Potato
• Poisonous Potato
• Beetroot
• Beetroot Soup
• Melon Slice
• Glow Berries
• Sweet Berries
• Chorus Fruit
• Dried Kelp

Meat and fish

• Raw Beef, Cooked Beef (Steak)
• Raw Porkchop, Cooked Porkchop
• Raw Chicken, Cooked Chicken
• Raw Mutton, Cooked Mutton
• Raw Rabbit, Cooked Rabbit
• Raw Cod, Cooked Cod
• Raw Salmon, Cooked Salmon
• Tropical Fish
• Pufferfish (poisonous when eaten)
• Rotten Flesh

Crafted foods

• Mushroom Stew
• Rabbit Stew
• Suspicious Stew (craft with any flower + red and brown mushrooms + bowl)
• Pumpkin Pie
• Cookie
• Cake (place and eat, counts when you take a bite)
• Honey Bottle

Special foods

• Spider Eye (poisonous)

Hard-to-find foods

Enchanted Golden Apple

These cannot be crafted since Java Edition 1.9. You must find them in loot chests. The best locations are Ancient City chests (which have a relatively high spawn rate) and Dungeon chests. Desert Temples and Woodland Mansions also contain them but less frequently. If you struggle to find one, explore multiple Ancient Cities in the Deep Dark.

Chorus Fruit

Grows on Chorus Plants in the outer End islands. After defeating the Ender Dragon, enter the End gateway portal to reach the outer islands. Break Chorus Plants and collect the fruit.

Pufferfish and Tropical Fish

Both are caught by fishing or found in Warm and Lukewarm oceans. Eating Pufferfish gives Hunger III, Nausea II and Poison IV. Have milk ready or just tough it out with full health. Tropical Fish can be eaten raw.

Suspicious Stew

Craft with a Bowl + Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + any flower. Different flowers give different effects. Use an Oxeye Daisy for Regeneration or a Dandelion for Saturation.

Systematic eating strategy

1. Set up farms first. Plant wheat, carrots, potatoes, beetroot, melons, pumpkins and sweet berry bushes. Build an animal farm with cows, pigs, chickens, sheep and rabbits.
2. Cook everything. Smelt all raw meats and fish. Each raw and cooked variant counts as a separate food.
3. Eat all farm foods. Work through your crops and meats. Bake bread, brew mushroom stew, craft rabbit stew, bake pumpkin pie and make cookies.
4. Eat the dangerous foods. Spider Eye, Pufferfish, Poisonous Potato and Rotten Flesh all have negative effects. Eat them with full health and armor. Have milk or healing potions ready.
5. Track what you have eaten. There is no in-game food tracker. Keep a written checklist or use a mod that tracks food consumption.

Common mistakes

• Forgetting raw variants. Raw Beef and Steak are separate items. Eat both.
• Never eating Poisonous Potato. It is a rare drop from potato crops and easy to ignore.
• Missing Honey Bottle. Craftable with a Glass Bottle at a full beehive. Easy to forget.
• Not placing Cake. You cannot eat Cake from your inventory. Place it as a block and right-click to eat a slice.

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