I like the idea of Animania foods giving special effects since they take more effort to create than vanilla foods, however, it's hard to keep this feature enabled in a survival-based modpack because some of the effects are very powerful make a lot of potions fairly useless. It'd be nice to be able to configure the effects that each food provides, or at least have an option in the config for milder effects.

Well, you can remove the effects altogether via the config. You can also modify the food values themselves. Customizing the effects... is there a mod for this?