How to Read the Food Effect Tooltip on Any Food Item

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Hover your cursor over any food item in your inventory, hotbar, chest, or crafting grid. The mod appends extra lines to the vanilla tooltip. You do not need to hold a key or open a special screen — the info appears automatically alongside the normal item name and lore.

What Each Line Means

Read the tooltip from top to bottom:

• Hunger restoration — how many hunger points (the drumstick icons) the food refills.
• Saturation — the hidden saturation value that determines how long you stay full. Higher saturation means hunger drains slower.
• Effect lines — one line per potion effect the food grants. Each line shows the effect name, its amplifier (Roman numeral, e.g. II for level 2), and its duration in seconds or minutes.
• Probability — for chance-based foods like rotten flesh, the line shows a percentage chance instead of a guaranteed effect. A guaranteed effect has no percentage.

Practical Tips

Compare two foods side by side by hovering each in turn. A food with lower hunger but higher saturation can keep you fed longer than one with a bigger hunger bar. When a tooltip lists multiple effects, check the durations — a short strong effect may matter more than a long weak one. If a line confuses you, the effect name matches the vanilla potion effect name, so you can look it up in your effects HUD after eating.