Quote Originally Posted by KiriA500 View Post
It'll give you a bonus, like Guardian's Aspect does for leves (I assume, only not as much obviously). That section you quoted is just saying that eating ingredients will ONLY give you an experience point bonus, as opposed to a prepared dish which gives the experience point bonus as well as a stat boost.
Ah okay, yeah I missed the first mention of the XP boost. Good to hear, that would have been awful otherwise lol.