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Sebayanpendam Posted 18 years ago
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nutritious

0Can you please tell me the difference between these adjective forms of 'nutrition'.02br
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001. nutritional food02br
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002. nutritive value02br
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003. nutrition label (nutrition is a noun, so does it modify label as an adjective?)02br
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0"Nutritional" and "nutritive" can both mean either "providing nutrition" (as in #1) or "relating to nutrition" (as in #2). In my experience, "nutritional" is the more common word but I'm not aware of any other difference. )02br 02br 00In #3, "nutritional label" (in the sense of "a label relating to nutrition") is not wrong, but the potential problem is that the "providing nutrition" meaning intrudes, making it sound as if you should be eating the label.

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  • 0"Nutritional" and "nutritive" can both mean either "providing nutrition" (as in #1) or "relating to nutrition" (as in #2).
  • In my experience, "nutritional" is the more common word but I'm not aware of any other difference.
  • )02br 02br 00In #3, "nutritional label" (in the sense of "a label relating to nutrition") is not wrong, but the potential problem is that the "providing nutrition" meaning intrudes, making it sound as if you should be eating the label.
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0"Nutritional" and "nutritive" can both mean either "providing nutrition" (as in #1) or "relating to nutrition" (as in #2). In my experience, "nutritional" is the more common word but I'm not aware of any other difference. ("Nutritious", on the other hand, can to me only mean "providing nutrition", so "nutritious value", though apparently common enough, sounds odd to me.)02br
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