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Beetroot in Minecraft: Hunger, Saturation and How to Get It
A beetroot restores 1 hunger and 1.2 saturation, but 6 beetroots and a bowl make beetroot soup, which restores 6 hunger and 7.2 saturation. Beetroots are also used for red dye.
How much does beetroot restore?
| Hunger | 1 |
| Saturation | 1.2 |
Each hunger point is half a drumstick, so 1 hunger is 0.5 drumsticks.
How do you get it?
Harvest grown beetroot crops: 1 beetroot on Java or 1 to 2 on Bedrock, plus 1 to 4 seeds. Snowy village houses can hold beetroot soup.
Tips
Beetroots breed pigs, and villagers need 12 to become willing. Eating soup gives the bowl back.
More about beetroot
Beetroot soup gives six times the hunger and saturation of one beetroot, so it is the best way to use them. A single beetroot also crafts into red dye, and seeds replant the crop.
How hunger works
Hunger points refill the hunger bar (20 points, 10 drumsticks), and saturation is a hidden buffer that drains first. With 18 or more hunger, or any saturation, health regenerates naturally; at 6 or less you cannot sprint, and at 0 you take starvation damage. Most foods take 1.6 seconds to eat, and you cannot eat at full hunger except a few special foods. Foods with high saturation keep you healing longer, which matters most in fights. Raw food cooks the same in a furnace, a smoker or a campfire: smokers are twice as fast, and campfires need no fuel at all. See food and hunger and crop farming.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you make beetroot soup?
6 beetroots and a bowl.
How much hunger does beetroot restore?
1 hunger and 1.2 saturation.
Sources
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