Suspicious Stew

For other uses, see Stew and Suspicious.

Suspicious Stew

Rarity tier	Common
Consumption time	32 game ticks (1.6 seconds)
Hunger	6 () 13 ( × 6.5)
Saturation	7.2 () 21.2 ( × 10.6)
Saturation boost‌[JE only]	Heals: 4.8HP × 2.4 Duration: 2.4 seconds Heals: 14.133HP × 7.0665 Duration: 7.067 seconds
Status effects	See § Food
Always consumable	Yes
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

Suspicious stew is a food item that can give the player a status effect that depends on the flower used to craft it.

Obtaining

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Suspicious Stew[A]	Desert well	Suspicious sand	1	12.5% { "item": "Suspicious Stew", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.125, "structure": "Desert well", "container": "Suspicious sand" }
	Shipwreck	Supply chest	1	54.3% { "item": "Suspicious Stew", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.5425437287546259, "structure": "Shipwreck", "container": "Supply chest" }
Suspicious Stew[B]	Ancient City	Ice box chest	2–6	54.9% { "item": "Suspicious Stew", "stacksize": "2–6", "chance": 0.549273355504249, "structure": "Ancient City", "container": "Ice box chest" }

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Notes
Red Mushroom or  Brown Mushroom or  Shelf Mushroom + Bowl + Any Small Flower		Any combination of brown, red, or shelf mushrooms can be used.

Harvesting

Suspicious stew can be obtained by “milking” a brown mooshroom by using an empty bowl on it after using a small flower on it. The flower type determines the stew's effect using the same rule as a crafted stew. After being milked once, the brown mooshroom returns to producing mushroom stew until fed another small flower. Red mooshrooms do not produce suspicious stew.

Trading

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Farmer	Expert	100%	100%	Emerald	Suspicious Stew[t 1]	12	15	0.05

The trading interface does not indicate the type of suspicious stew being sold, but each trade entry consistently yields the same type of stew, so the player can remember or make a note of the types offered by a given villager. In Bedrock Edition, due to MCPE-134483, all stews sold by farmers grant Night Vision for 5 seconds.

Commands

Suspicious stew can be given with commands like /give; in Java Edition, if the suspicious_stew_effect component is not specified, consuming the stew doesn't inflict any effect. In Bedrock Edition, different types of suspicious stews can be given by specifying its metadata value.

Usage

Food

To eat suspicious stew, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating one restores 6 () hunger and 7.2 hunger saturation and gives a few seconds of a status effect that varies depending on which flower was used to craft it. The effect is not displayed in the tooltip, texture, etc., unless the tooltip is viewed from the Creative inventory (including saved hotbars), meaning that the player cannot know in advance what the effect is without knowing which flower was used.

Flower	Effect	Duration	Type
Allium	Fire Resistance	3s	Positive
Azure Bluet Open Eyeblossom	Blindness	11s‌[JE only] 7s‌[BE only]	Negative
Blue Orchid Dandelion Golden Dandelion	Saturation	0.35s‌[JE only] 0.3s‌[BE only]	Positive
Closed Eyeblossom	Nausea	7s	Negative
Cornflower	Jump Boost	5s	Positive
Lily of the Valley	Poison	11s	Negative
Oxeye Daisy	Regeneration	7s	Positive
Poppy Torchflower	Night Vision	5s	Positive
Tulips	Weakness	7s	Negative
Wither Rose	Wither	7s	Negative

The bowl is emptied and returned to the player after the suspicious stew has been eaten, and can be re-used to craft more stews. Unlike most foods, suspicious stew can be eaten even if the player's hunger bar is full.

The Saturation effect makes the blue orchid and dandelion stews superfoods, especially in Java Edition, as the Saturation combined with the stew's initial food value results in the restoration of 13 ( × 6.5) hunger points and the maximization of saturation in Java Edition, and the restoration of 12 ( × 6) hunger points and 7.2 ()^[1] saturation points in Bedrock Edition. This is the largest amount of hunger points that can be restored from eating once. In Java Edition, that also applies to saturation points, while in Bedrock Edition it is only the 9th highest item in terms of saturation point restoration. Regeneration can restore up to 2HP health, while Poison can inflict up to 8HP damage and Wither up to 3HP damage.

Consuming suspicious stew is the only way to obtain the Saturation and Blindness effects in vanilla Minecraft without the use of commands.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Unique

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Suspicious Stew	suspicious_stew	Item	item.minecraft.suspicious_stew

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Suspicious Stew	suspicious_stew	590	Item	item.suspicious_stew.name

Item data

Java Edition:

Metadata

In Bedrock Edition, suspicious stew uses the following data values:

	DV	Description
	0	Poppy (Night Vision)
	1	Cornflower (Jump Boost)
	2	Tulip (Weakness)
	3	Azure Bluet (Blindness)
	4	Lily of the Valley (Poison)
	5	Any Dandelion (Saturation)
	6	Blue Orchid (Saturation)
	7	Allium (Fire Resistance)
	8	Oxeye Daisy (Regeneration)
	9	Wither Rose (Wither)
	10	Torchflower (Night Vision)
	11	Open Eyeblossom (Blindness)
	12	Closed Eyeblossom (Nausea)

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Time for Stew	Give someone a suspicious stew.	Drop a suspicious stew. Another player must then pick up this suspicious stew.	20	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Furious Cocktail	Have every potion effect applied at the same time	Have all of these 17​[until: Fourth Drop 2026]/18​[upcoming] status effects applied to the player at the same time: Fire Resistance Freezing Infested Invisibility Jump Boost Night Vision Oozing Poison Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Water Breathing Weakness Weaving Wind Charged The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement.
	How Did We Get Here?	Have every effect applied at the same time	Have all of these 34​[until: Fourth Drop 2026]/35​[upcoming] status effects applied to the player at the same time: Absorption Bad Omen Blindness Breath of the Nautilus Conduit Power Darkness Dolphin's Grace Fire Resistance Freezing Glowing Haste Hero of the Village Hunger Infested Invisibility Jump Boost Levitation Mining Fatigue Nausea Night Vision Oozing Poison Raid Omen Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Trial Omen Water Breathing Weakness Weaving Wind Charged Wither The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	Husbandry	The world is full of friends and food	Consume anything that can be consumed, except for cake.
	A Balanced Diet	Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you	Eat each of these 40 foods: Apple Baked Potato Beetroot Beetroot Soup Bread Carrot Chorus Fruit Cooked Chicken Cooked Cod Cooked Mutton Cooked Porkchop Cooked Rabbit Cooked Salmon Cookie Dried Kelp Enchanted Golden Apple Glow Berries Golden Apple Golden Carrot Honey Bottle Melon Slice Mushroom Stew Poisonous Potato Potato Pufferfish Pumpkin Pie Rabbit Stew Raw Beef Raw Chicken Raw Cod Raw Mutton Raw Porkchop Raw Rabbit Raw Salmon Rotten Flesh Spider Eye Steak Suspicious Stew Sweet Berries Tropical Fish Other foods and consumables can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.14			18w43a				Added suspicious stew.
							Suspicious stew is not obtainable in the Creative inventory.
			19w08a				Suspicious stew can be obtained by milking brown mooshrooms.
			19w11a				Trading has been changed, expert-level farmer villagers now sell suspicious stew for an emerald.
			19w14b				Suspicious stew with Saturation lasts 0.35 seconds instead of 5 seconds.
1.14.4			pre1				Suspicious stew made from poppies now gives Night Vision to the player instead of Speed.
1.16			pre1				Mooshrooms can now be milked for suspicious stew in Creative mode.[2]
1.17			21w13a				Suspicious stew can now be eaten even if the player is at full hunger.
1.19			22w13a				Suspicious stew may now be found in ancient city chests.
1.19.3			22w45a				Suspicious stew is now available in the Creative inventory.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w07a				Suspicious stew now drops when brushing suspicious sand in desert wells.
			pre1				Torchflowers can now be used to make suspicious stew.
1.20			23w12a				The probability for the suspicious stew to generate in the suspicious sand in desert well has been changed from 1/7 to 1/8.
1.21.2			24w33a				Suspicious stew recipes are now shown in the recipe book.
1.21.4			24w44a				Eyeblossoms can now be used to make suspicious stew.
			24w45a				Changed durations of the Suspicious Stew effects to match Bedrock Edition: Fire Resistance: 3 seconds Blindness: 11 seconds Weakness: 7 seconds Regeneration: 7 seconds Jump Boost: 5 seconds Wither: 7 seconds Poison: 11 seconds
			24w46a				The stew of Blindness now gains the same duration when crafted from azure bluet and open eyeblossoms.
26.1			snap5				Golden dandelions can now be used to make suspicious stew.
26.3			snap1				Suspicious stew can now be crafted with any combination of two mushrooms instead of requiring specifically one red mushroom and one brown mushroom.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.9				Added suspicious stew.
							Suspicious stew is not obtainable in the Creative inventory.
			beta 1.13.0.15				Master-level farmer villagers can now sell suspicious stew.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.57				Trading has been changed, expert-level farmer villagers now sell suspicious stew for an emerald.
1.19.70 Experiment Next Major Update			Preview 1.19.70.23				Suspicious stew now drops when brushing suspicious sand in desert wells.
1.20.10			Preview 1.20.0.20				Torchflower can now be used to make suspicious stew. The resulting type of stew is obtainable from the Creative inventory.
1.20.30			Preview 1.20.20.20				Suspicious stew can no longer be found in the Creative inventory.
1.20.60			Preview 1.20.60.25				Suspicious stew can now be eaten even if the player is at full hunger.
1.21.50			Preview 1.21.50.25				Open eyeblossom and closed eyeblossom can now be used to make suspicious stew.
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.23				Suspicious stews crafted with tulips now apply Weakness for 7 seconds, matching Java Edition.
							Suspicious stews with the Weakness effect acquired from shipwrecks or by trading now apply Weakness for 7 seconds.
1.21.120			Preview 1.21.120.20				Suspicious stews can now be found in the Creative inventory again.
							Hovering over a suspicious stew in Creative mode shows its effect in the tooltip.
26.10			Preview 26.10.23				Golden dandelions can now be used to make suspicious stew.
26.40 Experiment Drop 3 of 2026			Preview 26.40.27				Mushroom stew can now be crafted with any combination of two mushrooms instead of specifically requiring one red mushroom and one brown mushroom.
							Mushroom stew can now be crafted with a shelf mushroom.
26.50			Preview 26.50.22				All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have been fully implemented.

Issues

Issues relating to "Suspicious Stew" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• Suspicious stew was introduced because developers wanted a way of communicating that lilies of the valley are poisonous.^[3]
• If one excluded the red mushrooms (which are based on a poisonous mushroom), the only suspicious stews that would realistically be edible are the allium, dandelion, cornflower, oxeye daisy, tulip, and azure bluet suspicious stews, as those are the only flowers that are safe to eat in real life.
• As part of the Spookyfest campaign, a real life recipe for suspicious stew was made, using Pringles as ingredients.^[4]

Gallery

In other media

• 
  Real life suspicious stew from Minecraft.net

References