Phenomena and Processes

Nutritive Value

An indication of the contribution of a food to the nutrient content of the diet. This value depends on the quantity of a food which is digested and absorbed and the amounts of the essential nutrients (protein, fat, carbohydrate, minerals, vitamins) which it contains. This value can be affected by soil and growing conditions, handling and storage, and processing.

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Abstract

An indication of the contribution of a food to the nutrient content of the diet. This value depends on the quantity of a food which is digested and absorbed and the amounts of the essential nutrients (protein, fat, carbohydrate, minerals, vitamins) which it contains. This value can be affected by soil and growing conditions, handling and storage, and processing.

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32 entry terms
  • Availability, Biological Nutritional
  • Availability, Nutritional Biologic
  • Biologic Availability, Nutritional
  • Biologic Nutritional Availability
  • Biological Availability, Nutritional
  • Nutrition Value
  • Nutritional Availability
  • Nutritional Availability, Biologic
  • Nutritional Availability, Biological
  • Nutritional Biological Availability
  • Nutritional Value
  • Availability, Biologic Nutritional
  • Availability, Nutritional
  • Availability, Nutritional Biological
  • Biological Nutritional Availability
  • Nutrition Values
  • Nutritional Biologic Availability
  • Nutritional Values
  • Nutritive Values
  • Value, Nutrition
  • Value, Nutritional
  • Value, Nutritive
  • Values, Nutrition
  • Values, Nutritional
  • Values, Nutritive
  • Nutritional Food Quality
  • Nutritional Quality
  • Nutritive Quality
  • Food Quality, Nutritional
  • Quality, Nutritional
  • Quality, Nutritional Food
  • Quality, Nutritive

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6 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings drug effects, ethnology, genetics, immunology, physiology, radiation effects.

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Indexing Annotation

coordinate with specific food (IM)

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79

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Previous Indexing

  • Nutrition (1966-1978)

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  1. G07.203.650w.660w
  2. J01.576w.423w.850w.730w.750w
  3. N06.850w.601w.750w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Nutritive Value. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009753. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009753
  2. Nutritive Value. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritional_value
  3. Nutritive Value. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2075931