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. 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).
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.
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This food is made by players using the Cooking skill. It takes two bites to eat, with each bite healing 60 life points and temporarily boosting the player's Farming level by 3.
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This food is made by players using the Cooking skill. It takes two bites to eat, with each bite healing 110 life points, and boosting up to 4 Ranged and 5 Slayer levels.
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This food is made by players using the Cooking skill. It takes two bites to eat, with each bite healing 110 life points and boosting up to 5 Agility levels, as well as restoring 20% of your energy.
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This food is made by players using the Cooking skill. When eaten, they heal 230 life points and can heal a player up to 100 life points higher than their maximum life points.
Raw baron sharks are caught under the influence of the juju fishing potion. When cooked this food heals an initial 200 life points and then 10 life points a second, for 10 seconds. Wearing a shark's tooth necklace extends it another 5 seconds, making it able to heal 350 life points total.
Made by using a dose of juju cooking potion on a baked potato and adding the resulting strange potato to a bowl of tuna and corn. This food heals an initial 220 life points and then 10 life points a second, for 10 seconds.
Types of Foods
Most types of Foods can be found in one of the following links below.
Here are factors to consider when choosing the right food:
Heal per bite: players should try to find food that heals more in one bite than the max hit of dangerous monsters they train on. This should not pose a problem for players who train on much weaker monsters than they are.
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Space: some items require space, like baskets of strawberries to take out strawberries. Monsters drop items that requires space, so consider a monster's drops and frequency of drops when bringing food.
Time to eat: try to avoid eating during combat if it is not deadly. Eating in combat is wasteful if you get damaged while eating. Some areas have aggressive monsters that hit hard and foods that take multiple bites, like cake, cause problems. You cannot attack while you are eating either.
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.
The 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.
