Detecting when players eat (cake) in general

[Endercraft_O]

I want to detect when a player eats any food item. For items I have a listener for when the Item is finished using but due to the cake is implemented there is no way for me to detect when the player eats a modded cake in general.

My current thought is to extend the FoodData class so that when

public void eat(int pFoodLevelModifier, float pSaturationLevelModifier)

is called it would fire a custom event and replace every instance of FoodData in Player with the extended version. I think it's not likely to break much since FoodData seem to be a pretty isolated section of code but it probably will horribly conflict with any mod that may also have had the same idea. But before actually doing it I wanted to ask if this would be safe to do so and if there is another alternative I've missed. Also is any of this considered core-modding, i'm not sure of the exact definition?

[warjort]

Why not VanillaGameEvent and GameEvent.EAT?

[Endercraft_O]

I didn't know this existed, but it won't work as I need to be able to cancel the event and also get the amount of food and saturation