Updated 25 October 2026. Facts on this page come from minecraft.wiki, minecraft.net and the live Artemis PvP server; sources are listed at the bottom.
Cooked Chicken in Minecraft: Hunger and Saturation
Cooked chicken restores 6 hunger and 7.2 saturation. Raw chicken is risky: it has a 30% chance to give Hunger for 30 seconds, so always cook it first.
How much does cooked chicken restore?
| Hunger | 6 |
| Saturation | 7.2 |
Each hunger point is half a drumstick, so 6 hunger is 3 drumsticks.
How do you get it?
Cook raw chicken, or kill chickens with fire. Apprentice butchers sell 8 cooked chicken for one emerald, and trial spawners can drop it.
Tips
A chicken farm gives eggs, feathers and food at once. Cooked chicken also breeds and heals tamed wolves.
More about cooked chicken
Raw chicken restores 2 hunger and 1.2 saturation. On Java, butchers sometimes give cooked chicken to Hero of the Village players. Chickens breed with seeds, so a small pen grows quickly.
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 chicken farms.
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Frequently asked questions
Is raw chicken safe to eat?
No; it has a 30% chance to give Hunger I for 30 seconds.
How much hunger does cooked chicken restore?
6 hunger and 7.2 saturation.
Sources
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