I think the more serious issue is the fact they last 5 minutes (as im aware?)

The food affects seem to work, i mean you wont see a massive difference with +5 mnd or +5str but its all about stacking, tho you cant stack fodo so is a little odd. In XI with class specifics and attribute specifics that were static in some sense +5/+10 was a big step but in this game where @ 50 your stat cap is 179 and easily met, +5 doesnt seem so much.

But I completely agree in that the stat changes should be displayed, theres no need for all this secrecy. I mean people eventually will figure out that X item does X amount of stat points, so why continue hiding it from the display? We know what it does just making it more tedious.