nutritious food

collocation in English

meaningsofnutritiousandfood

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nutritious
adjective
uk
/njuːˈtrɪʃ.əs/us
/nuːˈtrɪʃ.əs/
containing many of the substances needed for life ...
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food
noun[C or U]
uk
/fuːd/us
/fuːd/
something that people and animals eat, or plants absorb, to keep ...
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(Definition ofnutritiousandfoodfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The middle-aged participants had given much thought about how to promote harmonious relationships with their children, and they preparednutritiousfoodand soups for them.
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Early-nineteenth-century social commentators often observed gender differences in diets, with men enjoying the lion's share of thenutritiousfood.
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The people away from the coast would have been denied a fair share of a very important andnutritiousfoodat that time.
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Milk is given to children as anutritiousfoodto create healthy, strong, non-ricketed limbs.
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These children do not get sufficientnutritiousfoodto make them grow into strong and healthy men and women.
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But the basic needs are access tonutritiousfood, an adequate supply of safe drinking water and some form of reasonable shelter.
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The release adds that nutritional guidelines for hospital catering are to be issued because food, andnutritiousfood, is vital to the recovery of patients.
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Fish is an important andnutritiousfoodsource.
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It is most important that nothing should be done to reduce the small pickings which the poorer classes have for buyingnutritiousfood.
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Surely the fact that children may choose the leastnutritiousfooddoes not mean that we should not offernutritiousfoodin a school meal.
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The milk provided by the scheme for many of these people guarantees that they have somenutritiousfood.
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Ensuring that every citizen has access tonutritiousfoodis a main aim of development cooperation.
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We ought to make cheap, healthy andnutritiousfoodas much an every-day supply as are clean air and pure water.
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To provide their people with safe andnutritiousfoodhas always been an important ambition for all states.
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It provides a valuable andnutritiousfood, and one which helps our balance of payments.
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We ought to make it possible for them to use fresh milk and goodnutritiousfoodinstead of the tinned stuffs which they now eat.
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It also produces a standard ofnutritiousfoodwhich makes a mockery of the fast food and supermarket cheap food outlets that have overtaken our society today.
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There is an enormous waste going on to-day owing to the fact that we do not make the best possible use of the mostnutritiousfoodthat we have.
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It is the responsibility of individual health authorities to ensure that they provide palatable andnutritiousfoodfor their patients economically and without undue waste of food.
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Since the war, chemists have run ramnant concerning the nation's food, not for the sake of bringing about purer and morenutritiousfood, but largely for private profit.
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