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n. - The quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth.

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  • In respect of nutritiveness, it deserves a preference over all the pure starches on account of the proteine compounds it contains.
  • 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.
  • Are children doomed to a monotonous dietary, or a dietary that is deficient in nutritiveness?
  • To fulfil the requirement, the quantity must be increased as the nutritiveness is diminished.
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