You will eventually get hungry and ultimately you will die from starvation, so if you want to live a little longer you can e)at food to gain nutrition and sustain hunger. Rotten food is usually bad for your health, though.
Praying to [[Seges]] will fill your stomach if you are in a good relation with her, or empty it if you are not.
Several kinds of food stuffs and monster corpses have their unique additional effects.
===Food effects===
* '''School food''' - School food will poison you, but it may also raise your [[Endurance]]
* '''Carrot''' - Eating carrots will raise your [[Perception]]
* '''Holy Banana of Oily Orpiv''' - Eating the holy banana will cause you to be Overfed for a very long time. The downside to this is that since you've gained a lot of weight, your [[Agility]] will inevitably go down. It will also raise all of your stats (AStr, LStr, Dex, etc.) by 1.
===Corpse effects===
* '''Human corpses''' - It is possible to eat a human corpse, but doing so is an evil deed, and will make your alignment slightly more chaotic
* '''Rotten corpses''' - If you see a food item with flies buzzing around it, it's best to stay away. If you do eat a rotten food item, or an orc corpse, then you will get a parasite inside your stomach, which will continually eat away at your stomach and can only be ridden of by vomiting.
* '''Mutant corpses''' - such as bunnies and asses will cause you to [[polymorph]] randomly. If you have PolyControl this is okay, but if not then it's best to leave these corpses as a last resort and to only eat them if you are hungry.
* '''Chameleons''' - have the same polymorph effect
* '''Zombies''' - eating a zombie corpse will give you [[leprosy]]
* '''Poisoned corpses''' - eating spiders, skunks, or snakes will poison you, which will make you vomit, and you'll end up even hungrier than before. So this is never a good idea.
* '''Acidous corpses''' - Since dark frog blood is acid, eating one of their corpses will cause acid to flow through your blood stream. This will most likely kill you
* '''Werewolves''' - Eating a werewolf corpse will give you lycanthropy, which will cause you to polymorph into a werewolf randomly
* '''Floating eye''' - Eating a floating eye will temporarily give you [[ESP]], which enables you to detect intelligent creatures even if they are not humanly visible.
* '''Blink Dog''' - Eating a blink dog will give you [[TeleControl]]
* '''Magical mushroom''' - Eating a mushroom corpse will have a wide range of effects, from Polymorphing, to TeleControl, to Levitation, to Hasting or Slowing.
* '''Unicorns''' - White vs. Gray vs. Black