as in nutritional
providing the substances necessary for health and bodily growth
some people contend that whole wheat bread is significantly more nutritive than white bread
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Multivitamin to cover the bases A daily multivitamin, while not a panacea, can give you an overall nutritive boost.
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Rachel Reiff Ellis, Fortune Well, 16 Apr. 2023
During the course of three separate morning visits to USC's Dornsife Cognitive Neuroimaging Center, the participants consumed 300 milliliters of a drink sweetened with sucrose (nutritive sugar), a drink sweetened with the NNS sucralose or water as a control.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 29 Sep. 2021
Small-scale, ecofriendly cultivation methods using indigenous knowledge and inputs and cutting-edge science increase the variety, nutritive value and quantity of foods produced on farms while stabilizing rural economies, promoting gender equity and protecting biodiversity.
—Bridget Mugambe, Scientific American, 6 July 2021
How fake sugars affect your health Scientists used to think that non-nutritive sweeteners were largely inert, activating sweet receptors on our tongues and passing through our bodies without causing metabolic changes.
—Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
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Rachel Reiff Ellis, Fortune Well, 16 Apr. 2023
During the course of three separate morning visits to USC's Dornsife Cognitive Neuroimaging Center, the participants consumed 300 milliliters of a drink sweetened with sucrose (nutritive sugar), a drink sweetened with the NNS sucralose or water as a control.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 29 Sep. 2021
Small-scale, ecofriendly cultivation methods using indigenous knowledge and inputs and cutting-edge science increase the variety, nutritive value and quantity of foods produced on farms while stabilizing rural economies, promoting gender equity and protecting biodiversity.
—Bridget Mugambe, Scientific American, 6 July 2021
How fake sugars affect your health Scientists used to think that non-nutritive sweeteners were largely inert, activating sweet receptors on our tongues and passing through our bodies without causing metabolic changes.
—Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
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