NUTRITIVE


Meaning of NUTRITIVE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

value

The food, although mainly low in nutritive value , unappetizing and depressingly monotonous, was at least adequate in quantity.

It has psychological as well as nutritive value to us.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

After all, who can measure the value derived from a dessert once you take away the nutritive factors?

Consequently, this fixation on the earliest, nurturing and nutritive superego-precursor seems increasingly to express itself in the form of drug-addiction.

Here, nutritive material is absorbed through the gut wall into the bloodstream, while bacteria break down less-digestible substances such as cellulose.

It has psychological as well as nutritive value to us.

Psychological and spiritual well-being can not be measured by nutritive tables alone.

That night Blanquita whips up some green nutritive complexion cream in the Cuisinart.

The nutritive arguments still stand and I would not make a habit of eating lots of white bread.

The food, although mainly low in nutritive value, unappetizing and depressingly monotonous, was at least adequate in quantity.

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