nutritive

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Once milk flows, the baby will switch to a different, nutritive suck pattern.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2023

Fall is a great time to add a percolating layer of compost as a nutritive mulch on new or existing beds, or even on a lawn.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2022

“What is clear is that the energetic value of food and beverages that contain both nutritive and nonnutritive sweeteners is not being accurately communicated to the brain,” Small notes.

From Scientific American • Sep. 24, 2019

It’s not nutritive; the physiological ramifications are dire and well documented.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2018

He knew, as do many Gethenians, the caloric and nutritive value of each food; he knew his own requirements under various conditions, and how to estimate mine pretty closely.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin