Hmm.. lemme put it this way then...
I'm 132 Month VET.
Food DID give back large amounts of life at some point in the last "few" years.. I don't know how long it was like this only that it was like this when I tested it. If I had to guess it would be when they came out with enchanted food etc. I vaguely remember them adjusting how hunger worked sometime after that which is I suspect when they changed the benefits of the food. The large chunk of life the food healed was nice, but not really useful at the time bc anyting that large also filled you up and that was a 5 min process to go hungry again at the time....
Anyway... When is really irrelevant I guess.. food definately doesn't heal you now which is what I was testing .. I was just surprised and curious.. Wasn't looking for people to out right contradict me..
oh btw... Eating has NEVER effected the success of skill gains etc in UO.... It's an Urban Myth... I think this was answered in a FoF at some point but wading through those is painful...