Definition of "nutritiveness" [nutritiveness]

• The property of being nutritive. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Next, food was manufactured to produce a still greater variety, to increase the flavour, or less frequently to produce an imagined greater digestibility or nutritiveness."
• "In respect of nutritiveness, it deserves a preference over all the pure starches on account of the proteine compounds it contains."
• "As Herbert Spencer has pointed out, the degree of human energy, physical or intellectual, must depend upon the nutritiveness of food; and history shows that the well-fed races have been the energetic and the dominant."