Relating to nutrition or the process of providing the body with necessary food and nutrients for health and growth. Used to describe food value, dietary requirements, or health benefits.
From Latin 'nutritio' meaning 'a nourishing, nursing' from 'nutrire' meaning 'to nourish, feed.' The adjective form developed in English in the early 20th century as scientific understanding of nutrition expanded.
The field of nutritional science is surprisingly young - vitamins weren't discovered until the early 1900s, and the first Recommended Daily Allowances weren't established until World War II. Before then, sailors died of scurvy without knowing that citrus fruits could save them!
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