as in nutritive
providing the substances necessary for health and bodily growth
the doctor recommended nutritional supplements
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Recent Examples of nutritional
Your care team may recommend taking nutritional supplements, especially if part of your stomach was removed during treatment.
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Carrie Madormo, Health, 18 Oct. 2025
For the most nutritional benefit, choose unsalted, raw, or dry-roasted pumpkin seeds, and store them in a cool, dry place to keep their healthy fats from going rancid.
—Kathleen Ferraro, Verywell Health, 17 Oct. 2025
All of this is found in the one tablet—such an accessible serving size that makes filling nutritional gaps an easy feat.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2025
About 11% of Coloradans lack reliable access to nutritional food, according to the most recent data collected by Hunger Free Colorado.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
How to get a nutritional boost from your jack-o'-lantern.
—Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
This might beg the question of the benefit of interplanting if crops don’t provide their maximum yield, but comparing the nutritional yield of polyculture versus monoculture parcels of land demonstrated that interplanting yielded greater nutritional value per hectare despite the lower crop yields.
—JSTOR Daily, 14 Oct. 2025
Trump’s dismantling of USAID and cuts to SNAP, the nutritional program for the poor, have also hit two major outlets for American farmers’ goods.
—Patricia Lopez, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
This interruption directly impacts approximately 4,200 recipients who depend on WIC assistance for infant formula, healthy food and nutritional support.
—Arlyssa D. Becenti, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Carrie Madormo, Health, 18 Oct. 2025
For the most nutritional benefit, choose unsalted, raw, or dry-roasted pumpkin seeds, and store them in a cool, dry place to keep their healthy fats from going rancid.
—Kathleen Ferraro, Verywell Health, 17 Oct. 2025
All of this is found in the one tablet—such an accessible serving size that makes filling nutritional gaps an easy feat.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2025
About 11% of Coloradans lack reliable access to nutritional food, according to the most recent data collected by Hunger Free Colorado.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
How to get a nutritional boost from your jack-o'-lantern.
—Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
This might beg the question of the benefit of interplanting if crops don’t provide their maximum yield, but comparing the nutritional yield of polyculture versus monoculture parcels of land demonstrated that interplanting yielded greater nutritional value per hectare despite the lower crop yields.
—JSTOR Daily, 14 Oct. 2025
Trump’s dismantling of USAID and cuts to SNAP, the nutritional program for the poor, have also hit two major outlets for American farmers’ goods.
—Patricia Lopez, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
This interruption directly impacts approximately 4,200 recipients who depend on WIC assistance for infant formula, healthy food and nutritional support.
—Arlyssa D. Becenti, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nutritional
Adjective
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Thus, even if a farmer primarily relied on corn for sustenance and/or trade, planting beans and squash alongside the maize increased the nutritive value of the same area.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
14 Oct. 2025
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The Super soy subtype was engineered by the researchers giving it a heart-friendly fat profile, trimming out non-nutritive sugars, and ditching the flavor-spiking enzyme lipoxygenase.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds are both good sources of dietary fiber, protein, magnesium, and other essential nutrients.—
Brittany Lubeck,
Verywell Health,
21 Oct. 2025
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Studies show dietary and supplemental magnesium may help lower blood pressure.—
Laura Schober,
Health,
21 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Nutritional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nutritional. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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