nutritive

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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

Plant and microbial species, in particular, can reveal new medicinal and nutritive knowledge.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 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

Did he bring home nutritive roots and brew homeopathic teas?

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides