Food

Food, in RuneScape, is what enables the player to regain life points, although some foods may have other effects as well. Food can be obtained through the Cooking skill, as a drop from certain monsters, from some random events such as the Sandwich Lady random event, from other players, or from non-player characters.

There are several kinds of food, such as fish and meat, bread, cakes, pies, and even pizza. Some foods, such as pies, cakes and pizzas, have two or more "bites" or "slices", this is a downside that can easily be remedied by using the food on a Cornucopia in battle (but it doesn't interrupt your attacks) then using it to heal your life points. There are also foods which grow from the ground such as potatoes, cabbages, and onions; those items can be put into baskets and sacks. There are also special foods such as spinach roll and baguette gained from random events. Lastly, there are holiday items food such as pumpkin and easter egg. It is strongly recommended that a player does not eat holiday items, as all are rare and extremely valuable.

Some foods have effect on skills other than life points. For example, wine makes your life points go up, though it has a downside. If a player drinks a jug of wine and then goes to the skills tab, it can be seen that the player's attack level temporarily decreases, while their strength level increases. The negative effects eventually wear off, though, and the affected stats go back to normal in time. Most such effects do not stack.

Common foods
Here are some common foods. A complete list of cooked foods can be found in the Cooking skill page.

Trivia

 * Purple Sweets are the only stackable food in the game, healing 10-30 life points and restoring 10% run energy per serving.
 * Cursor-apple.png mouse cursor for eating (after 2 September updates) represents a half-eaten apple, although you can't eat apples in RuneScape.
 * The animations for eating food were updated with the release of the Dungeoneering skill.
 * In Daemonheim, it is possible to "feed" a fellow party member by using a piece of food on them, which makes them perform the eating animation and heal, using the food from your inventory. This is not possible outside of Daemonheim.
 * On German servers, the old eating animation is still in effect.