Originally posted by Catastrophe:

It's stupid. The number starts decreasing after the first minute and you can't eat anything else until that food is flashing. It should remain at full strength and start decreasing once it starts flashing. Or it should just disappear when the time is up. If it runs out because you were not paying attention, then you get to learn not to do it again or keep dying. Very simple.

this is a glass half full half empty situation, cause really, when you have just eaten you get a buff on top of what they food will give you on stats and just before it starts flashing is where you are having the intended stats that you go by, as soon it's starts flashing it decreases and you can eat.

you either see it as a negative the first time it decreases or you realize that the first minutte is actually you having an extra buff, glass half empty or glass half full.