Definition of "nutritive" []

• Nutritious; nourishing. (adjective)
• Of or relating to nutrition. (adjective)

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• ""Food carried from the stomach to the blood can not become _nutritive_ till it is properly oxygenated in the lungs; so that a small quantity of food, even if less wholesome, may be made nutritive by pure air as it passes through the lungs."
• "Cambridge, England, tells us) is fully equal to beef or mutton in nutritive value to man."
• "Bananas, grapes and strawberries contain to each part of proteid from 10 to 12 parts of other solid nutritive constituents (any oil being calculated into starch equivalents); this is termed the nutritive ratio."