nutritive

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/ˈnjuːtɹətɪv/

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Nutritive substances are essential for health.
The juice of the ripe grape is a nutritive and agreeable food, consisting chiefly of sugar and mucilage.
The percentage of nutritive elements contained in the parsnip is very small; so small, indeed, that one pound of parsnips affords hardly one fifth of an ounce of nitrogenous or muscle-forming material.

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The juice of the ripe grape is a nutritive and agreeable food, consisting chiefly of sugar and mucilage.
1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 110
The percentage of nutritive elements contained in the parsnip is very small; so small, indeed, that one pound of parsnips affords hardly one fifth of an ounce of nitrogenous or muscle-forming material.
1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Vegetables”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of...
D'Argenson reckoned that its consumption held up so well in times of high prices because the poor thought that it had nutritive value.
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 355

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From Middle French nutritif, from Late Latin nūtritīvus, from the participle stem of Latin nūtriō (“to suckle”).