Diminishing Returns

On by default. Can be turned off or tuned per world, see Configuration.

Eating the same food again and again restores less. Plateful remembers your last 6 meals. Each time a food already appears in those meals, eating it again restores 25% less, down to a minimum of 25%:

Times eaten in your last 6 meals	Restores
0	100%
1	75%
2	50%
3 or more	25%

Eating other foods pushes old meals out of the list, so a food recovers once you have had a few different meals. This applies to every food, vanilla included, and lowers both hunger and saturation (every food still restores at least 1 hunger). The Food Journal shows what each food will restore next time.