Brewing-only ingredient crafted with a Melon Slice and 8 Gold Nuggets for Potion of Healing.
Guide
Break a Melon block with a sword or axe and collect at least one Melon Slice.
Smelt Gold Ingots into 9 Nuggets each or pick up Gold Nuggets from Zombified Piglin drops.
Place 1 Melon Slice in the center and 8 Gold Nuggets in the outer slots to make one Glistering Melon Slice.
Place Glistering Melon Slice above an Awkward Potion in a Brewing Stand to make Potion of Healing.
Add Glowstone Dust to upgrade Healing to Tier II, restoring 8 hearts instead of 4.
Trade with farmer villagers to gain Melon Slices fast, then automate Gold Nugget supply via piglin bartering.
No. The Glistering Melon Slice is not edible and exists only as a brewing ingredient.
Awkward Potion plus Glistering Melon Slice creates a Potion of Healing that restores 4 hearts instantly.
Each Glistering Melon Slice needs 8 Gold Nuggets, equivalent to roughly one Gold Ingot minus one nugget.
Java Edition 1.13 renamed the item from Glistering Melon to match the underlying Melon Slice.