Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Providing nourishment; nourishing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing or contributing nutriment or nourishment; capable of promoting the growth or repairing the waste of organic bodies; nourishing: as, nutritious substances; nutritious food.
- Synonyms See list under
nourishing .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Providing
nutrients ;healthy to eat.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or providing nourishment
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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•Find comfort in nutritious versions of your favorite foods.
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The peanut residue, which remains quite nutritious, is pressed into cakes and fed to cattle (who also live in the heart of town with their owners).
Archive 2008-02-01 Nupur 2008
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The acronym stands for Women, Infants and Children; it is a governmentally funded voucher program with which low income mothers can obtain nutritious food for themselves (particularly if they are nursing mothers), their babies and toddlers.
Tigers & Strawberries » Politics and Food: The Personal is Political 2005
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Defending the use of the word nutritious'', Coca-Cola said the product contained
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The food and beverage giant last year indicated it would stick to collaborative deals and alliances to reach its goal of nearly tripling annual sales of so-called nutritious and functional foods.
Pepsi Makes Dips Push Overseas Tess Stynes 2011
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LONDON — Britain s ad regulator says Vitaminwater has too much sugar to be accurately described as nutritious and has ordered owner Coca-Cola to stop running...
Vitaminwater Called Misleading AP 2011
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LONDON — Britain's ad regulator says Vitaminwater has too much sugar to be accurately described as nutritious and has ordered owner Coca-Cola to stop running advertisements carrying the claim.
Vitaminwater Called Misleading AP 2011
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Food, however nutritious, which is too quickly digested, is soon followed by a sense of hunger and emptiness, and consequent sinking and debility.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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Coke's Vitaminwater claims misleading BRITAIN'S ad regulator says Vitaminwater has too much sugar to be accurately described as nutritious and has ordered owner Coca-Cola to stop running advertisements carrying the claim.
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It soon became infamous as the Froot Loops label because it allowed sugar-laden cereals and Cracker Jack to be called nutritious.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Chron clochhead@sfchronicle.com (Carolyn Lochhead 2011
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