nutriture

Noun

nutriture (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) nutrition; nourishment
   • Never make a meal of flesh alone, have some other meat with it of less nutriture.1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions
   • The solitary life of Haller in his old age was very triste: the nutriture of his mind lay in the letters of the learned, and in his immense library .1834, Sir Egerton Brydges, The Autobiography, Times, Opinions, and Contemporaries of Sir Egerton Brydges, page 383
2. The process of digesting and absorbing specified nutrients through diet.
   • The program was designed ( a ) to provide evidence concerning the status of iodine nutriture in the United States and the extent of iodine deficiency, ( b ) to examine the efficacy of existing methods of preventing iodine deficiency and, especially, why iodization sometimes fails, ( c ) to explore...1971, Iodine Nutriture in the United States
   • Thus, in any consideration of the iron nutriture of adolescents, biological variability must be taken into account.1976, Alvin M. Mauer, Iron Nutriture in Adolescence, page 3