Food

Food, in RuneScape, is what enables the player to regain Health, although some foods may have other effects as well. Food can be obtained through the Cooking skill, as a drop from certain Monsters, from other players, or from non-player characters. The highest healing food for non-members is an anchovy pizza; for members it is the rocktail soup with 1 bite (although fury sharks can potentially heal more, when eaten out of combat). However the fastest healing food for members with multiple bites are summer pies which only takes 0.6 seconds per bite (3x faster than some types of food).

A certain constitution level is required to gain the maximum benefit eating each piece of food, so for example, at level 10 constitution, a rocktail will only heal 250 life points, but at 95, it will heal 2300. The maximum health recovery from eating food can be determined by multiplying your constitution level by 25. So if your constitution level is 50, then you can heal up to 1250 life points per bite of food that has a maximum value of that or more. You can also find out the required level to eat any food by taking the maximum heal of that food and dividing that by 25. If your constitution level is lower than this number, then you will be restricted to healing the maximum for your level.

There are many types of food: fish, meat, bread, cakes, pies, and 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. You could also get food as a treasure trail reward, in the form of purple sweets or biscuits. 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.

Note: Eating 1 part of a pie only takes 0.6 seconds and eating 1 shark for example takes 1.8 seconds (3x longer), so overall you can heal faster with high level pies and the limit is 330 with summer pies.

Some foods affect stats other than life points. Wine increases life points, though it temporarily lowers the drinker's Attack level while their Strength level temporarily increases. Beer raises your Strength while reducing your Attack. The negative effects eventually wear off though, and the affected stats go back to normal in time. Most 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.

Note: Healing amounts provided below are maximum for this type of food.

Types of food
Most types of food can be found in one of the following articles.
 * Ales and ciders
 * Fish
 * Fruit
 * Meat
 * Pies
 * Pizzas
 * Potatoes

Trivia

 * Purple Sweets and biscuits are the only stackable food in the game. Purple sweets heal 200 life points and restore 20% run energy per serving, and biscuits restore heal 250 life points and 10 prayer points each.
 * Food cursor.png mouse cursor for eating (after 2 September updates) represents a half-eaten apple, although you cannot eat apples in RuneScape (except rotten apples which do not heal anything).
 * 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 only possible outside of Daemonheim when on a coop slayer task with the ability bought at a slayer master with coop points.
 * On German servers, the old eating animation is still in effect.
 * Most foods take 3 game ticks to eat; exceptions are purple sweets and pies.

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