Food

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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 some random events such as the Sandwich lady random event, from other players, or from non-player characters. The highest healing food for non-members is an anchovy pizza; for members it is the juju gumbo with 1 bite. 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).

Since the EoC, your maximum recovery by eating food is your constitution level multiplied by 20. So if your consitution level is 50, your maximum health recovery by eating food is 1000. So, this means that you can also find out the best level to eat food by taking the maximum health recovery of the food and dividing by 20.

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. There are also special foods such as spinach roll and baguette gained from random events. 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. If your Constitution is low, actual healing amount will be equal 16 times Constitution level.

Types of Foods
Most types of Foods can be found in one of the following links below.
 * Ales and ciders
 * Meat
 * Pies
 * Pizzas
 * Potatoes
 * Fruit

Trivia

 * Purple Sweets and biscuits are the only stackable food in the game. They each heal 10-30 life points. Purple sweets restore 20% run energy per serving, and biscuits restore 10 prayer points each.
 * Cursor-apple.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 not possible outside of Daemonheim.
 * 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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