Potatoes are good food for the early and midgame of Minecraft. They can be eaten raw to restore one hunger, represented by half of a food icon, should a new player have little access to fuel to cook.

An infamous Minecraft food item is the poisonous potato. Despite not having the ability to be cooked, composted, or farmed back into crop rows, it still has its uses. Introduced in the 1.4.2 update to ...