Serving to nourish by providing or supporting the use of nutrients.
Reach for it when describing the nutritional function or value of a food or substance in formal writing
Researchers compared the nutritive value of the two locally grown grains.
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everyday
Fits when food supplies health-supporting nutrients in ordinary usage
Careful Nutritious describes the food as a whole, while nutritive often modifies value, function, or tissue processes.
warm
Fits when the sustaining benefit of food should sound natural and inviting
Careful Nourishing is less technical and can also describe emotional experiences.
professional
nutrient-providing
Fits when the exact function is supplying specified nutrients
Careful The phrase is precise but awkward when a conventional adjective would read more naturally.
professional
nutritional
Fits when the phrase concerns nutrition broadly, including analysis or requirements
Careful Nutritional can describe information or policy that does not itself provide nourishment.
formal
alimentary
Fits when specialist writing concerns nourishment or the digestive tract
Careful Alimentary is technical and can refer to digestion rather than nutritive value.
literary
Fits when broad positive prose can emphasize contribution to vitality
Careful Health-giving is an expansive claim and may overstate a limited nutritive effect.
nutritive value
The report measured the nutritive value after storage and cooking.
nutritive function
The supplement has a nutritive function rather than acting as a medicine.
nutritive substance
Yeast converts the nutritive substance into compounds the culture can use.
Definitions and examples are written for this site. How words are chosen Recording: Vealhurl, Southern England accent, from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Updated
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