Food reference
All 80 things you can eat or drink, with their real values from the game. The quick answers first, then the full table: sort by any column, pick a kind of food, or tick Vanilla food too to compare with Minecraft’s own.
- Most filling: 21 saturation. 12 foods tie, all with 14 hunger; 12 of them also give Nourishment.
+2 - Most hunger per stack: 768 hunger, from Kelp Roll. 12 per item × stacks of 64. Bowl meals stack to 16, so handheld food wins on inventory space.
- Longest Nourishment: 5 minutes. 11 foods stop your hunger bar from draining that long.
+1 - Best quick bite: 6 hunger in 0.8 s, from Kelp Roll Slice. Highest hunger among the 22 foods you eat in 0.8 s (most foods take 1.6 s).
80 foods. Click a column heading to sort.
Nourishment 5:00
Glowing 0:05
Regeneration 0:05
Nausea 0:1230%
Speed 0:30
Hunger 0:3030%
Absorption 1:00
Hunger is what a food fills on your hunger bar; one shank is 2. Saturation keeps you full before the bar starts dropping, but you can never have more saturation than hunger, so high-saturation food pays off most when you eat it hungry. Nourishment stops your hunger bar from draining and comes in 4 lengths: 30 seconds, 1 minute, 3 minutes, 5 minutes. Bowls and bottles come back when you finish a meal or drink, even from a full stack.
With the default settings,
Mushroom Stew and 
Beetroot Soup give Nourishment too, and 
Rabbit Stew gets better food values, 14 hunger and 21 saturation, plus 5 minutes of Nourishment.