nutritive

adj

1. Of or pertaining to nutrition.
2. Nourishing, providing nutrition.

   “The juice of the ripe grape is a nutritive and agreeable food, consisting chiefly of sugar and mucilage.”

   “The percentage of nutritive elements contained in the parsnip is very small; so small, indeed, that one pound of parsnips affords hardly one fifth of an ounce of nitrogenous or muscle-forming material.”

   “D'Argenson reckoned that its consumption held up so well in times of high prices because the poor thought that it had nutritive value.”

noun

1. (archaic)A nutrient.