nutritiveness

• a word derived from nutritive.
  nutritive

  adjective

  serving to nourish; providing nutriment; nutritious.

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nutritiveness

The inference is, then, that they should have a diet which combines, as much as possible, nutritiveness and digestibility.

From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

Are children doomed to a monotonous dietary, or a dietary that is deficient in nutritiveness?

From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

In respect of nutritiveness, it deserves a preference over all the pure starches on account of the proteine compounds it contains.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

Horses, cattle, and sheep need hay to qualify the too watery nature of the roots, and the too condensed nutritiveness of the grain.

From Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. by Richard L. Allen

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.

From The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by A. W. Duncan

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