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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 Spencer, Herbert

If the food be eaten with a relish, and tolerated by the stomach, its digestibility will not, except in extreme cases, affect in a very sensible degree its nutritiveness.

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir

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 Simmonds, P. L.

To fulfil the requirement, the quantity must be increased as the nutritiveness is diminished.

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

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 Duncan, A. W.