Apple

An apple is a veggy fruit. You will sometimes find apples in the dungeon. A Healer or Monk starts with five apples in their initial inventory; a Knight starts with ten apples. (A Monk will also have five oranges, while a Knight will also have ten carrots. See u_init.c.)

In real life, an apple is a round, sweet fruit that grows on a tree and hangs from a stem. In the center is an inedible core of apple seeds; consumers often dump this core into the trash. Apples typically feature a red, green, or yellow skin. With color on, NetHack colors its apples red.

Messages
Some extra funny messages appear if you eat an apple in NetHack upon a Unix or Mac OS system. No extra messages appear on other systems. See eat.c.

Strategy
Apples do not give much nutrition. Eat your rations first and save your apples for other uses, such as taming or feeding pets.

Healers, Knights, and Monks might need to eat their apples before they can find other food.