nutritive
adjective
serving to nourish; providing nutriment; nutritious.
nonnutritive
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a word derived from
nutritive.
Example Sentences
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"There needs to be more research on the long-term impacts of consuming aspartame and other nonnutritive sweeteners on health."
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2023
Sugar substitutes, artificial sweeteners, low-calorie sweeteners, nonnutritive sweeteners … no matter how you refer to them, they’re not without controversy.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2023
With the breast, a baby must first engage in nonnutritive sucking — like the kind used with a pacifier — to trigger the mother’s let-down reflex.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2023
To further complicate matters, ultraprocessed foods often contain a combination of nutritive and nonnutritive sweeteners that, Small says, produces surprising metabolic effects that result in a particularly potent reinforcement effect.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 24, 2019
The Kinder Surprise runs afoul of a 1938 act forbidding food from containing nonnutritive objects—a statute enforced by the Food and Drug Administration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2018
