as in nutritional
providing the substances necessary for health and bodily growth
opted for a nutritious snack and bought an apple instead of a candy bar
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Recent Examples of nutritious
These are the Americans who earn too much to qualify for assistance but too little to consistently afford nutritious foods.
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Hank Cardello, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
All the while, according to a 2021 UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimate, 3.1 billion people, or 42 percent of the global population, could not afford an adequately nutritious diet.
—Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
Nearly 50 million people in this country lack access to a nutritious diet, much less a farm selling fresh food or organic options (which tend to be priced, on average, 53% higher than conventional, based on a 2025 LendingTree analysis).
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 10 June 2025
And the food bank could not have purchased the nearly $24 million of nutritious foods without private and public donor support.
—Carmen Del Guercio, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2025
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Hank Cardello, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
All the while, according to a 2021 UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimate, 3.1 billion people, or 42 percent of the global population, could not afford an adequately nutritious diet.
—Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
Nearly 50 million people in this country lack access to a nutritious diet, much less a farm selling fresh food or organic options (which tend to be priced, on average, 53% higher than conventional, based on a 2025 LendingTree analysis).
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 10 June 2025
And the food bank could not have purchased the nearly $24 million of nutritious foods without private and public donor support.
—Carmen Del Guercio, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nutritious
nutritive
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These zero-cal options get their flavor from an artificial non-nutritive sweetener called aspartame.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
18 Mar. 2025
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You Crave Ice Iron deficiency can cause pica, eating or craving non-nutritive substances like ice, dirt, uncooked rice, or paper.—
Isabel Vasquez RD LDN,
Health,
4 Feb. 2025
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“Nutritious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nutritious. Accessed 17 Jul. 2025.
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