Nutritive

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.