User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-23230538-20130924221432/@comment-5043481-20130925130551

The felyne food skills that raise elemental resistance will add 3 to the resistance if it's positive, or make it 3 if it is negitive. For example, if you have 10 fire res you will have 13 with the skill. But if you have -1000 thunder res then with the skill you will get +3. Very useful indeed.