The only nutrients in the mixture, revealed by analysis, are sugar, alcohol and glycerin, none of which is contained in cod-liver oil.
Nutrients Nutrients are remedies that nourish the body, such as sugar, sago, &c.
The practice places immediately available nutrients in the soil at the time and place to be of maximum usefulness to plants that have been severely root-pruned and have not yet had opportunity to rebuild the root system.
As long as moisture and nutrients are available and other conditions are favorable, a tomato plant will continue to branch and blossom and make fruit almost indefinitely.
Phosphorus Fertilizer experiments fairly generally point to the frequency with which phosphorus is the limiting factor among nutrients in tomato production.
If this is done, ample space and nutrients must accompany careful management.
There are other suitable mixtures of nutrients for this purpose.
More complete delineation of sources of nutrients to the free-flowing streams of the Basin and evaluation of methods of nutrient control or reduction.
More build on conventional treatment and are designed to remove nutrients and residual organic material from its effluents.
Soil conservation practices aimed at cutting down erosion--to be discussed within a few pages--tend to keep not only silt but nutrients and other substances on the land to some extent.
It was found that the presence of the nutrients exercises a very definite masking effect upon the action of the poisonous substance, so that the deleterious properties of the toxic substance are materially reduced.
But the investigator has now far less control, and bacterial and other actions come into play, while the nutrients and poisons supplied may set up interactions with the soil which it is impossible to fathom.
Even if moisture is regularly recharged by irrigation, and although nutrients are replaced, once a bit of earth has been occupied by the roots of one plant it is not so readily available to the roots of another.
Levels of other mineral nutrients are usually two or three times as high in the topsoil as well.
One thing fertilizer makers find expensive to accomplish is concocting a mixture of soluble nutrients that also contains calcium, a vital plant food.
Since winter rains leach nutrients from the topsoil and deposit them in the subsoil, plowpan prevents access to these nutrients and effectively impoverishes the field.
High levels of nutrients in the subsoil are more important than a fine seedbed.
Soluble nutrients sprayed on plant leaves are rapidly taken into the vascular system.
Intensive gardening makes sense when land is very costly and the worth of the food grown is judged against organic produce at retail--and when water and nutrients are inexpensive and/or available in unlimited amounts.
Remove all competition with a hoe, and allow this weed to totally control all the moisture and nutrients in all the earth its roots can occupy, and it grows hugely and lushly.
In order to be used by the body for any purpose, nutrients must first go through a series of complicated changes known as digestion, which renders them soluble so that they can soak through the walls of the intestine.
All three nutrients can serve as fuel, but the proteids alone can furnish materials for growth and repair of tissues.
The nutrients furnish the body with materials for growth, and for repair of tissues worn out by use; they also furnish fuel substances from which the body obtains its heat and its energy.
It is acted upon chemically by a fluid flowing into the intestine from an organ called the pancreas; this pancreatic juice acts upon all three nutrients and is of great importance in the digestive process.
The plant that reprocesses sewage to get organic nutrients for the hydroponic farms, and the plant that digests hydroponic vegetation to make nutrients for the carniculture vats.
That is to say, nothing but pillar-buildings two hundred yards apart and piles of bagged mineral nutrients for the hydroponic farms.
The enterprising companies that may put them out can easily publish tables to show the digestible nutrients in each and indubitable testimony can be furnished to prove the excellence of any of them as stock feed.
Humus is also fertilizer because its gradual decomposition provides mineral nutrients that make plants grow.
Having large quantities of water pass through a pile can also leach out vitalnutrients that feed organisms of decomposition and later on, feed the garden itself.
In verdant, rainy climates the soil is leached of plant nutrients and the food grown there is much less nutritious.
Alfalfa draws heavily on subsoil minerals so it will be as rich or poor in nutrients as the subsoil it grew in.
The activities of fungi and bacteria are the most potent forces making nutrients available to plants.
All plant nutrients except nitrogen originally come from decomposing rock.
However, figured per pound of nutrients they contain, seed meals are a much less expensive way to buy NPK.
The intense biological activity of a compost pile releases more of slag's other mineral content and converts its nutrients to organic substances that become rapidly available once the compost is incorporated into soil.
Phosphates as Plant Nutrients One hundred years after the discovery of "cold light," the presence of phosphorus in plants and animals was ascertained, and its form was established as a compound of phosphoric acid.
The other great advance in the use of phosphatic plant nutrients started with Liebig's recommendation (1840) to treat bones with sulfuric acid for solubilization.
The beneficial effects were obvious enough to increase the use of phosphates as plant nutrients and to call for new sources of supply.
Forster[1] shows that these nutrients are easily assimilated.
We have noted above the high percentage of nutrients which cocoa contains, and the research conducted by J.
The nature of digestion is determined by the conditions affecting the entrance of nutrients into the body.
The purpose of these is to aid in the absorption of the nutrients as they become dissolved (Chapter XI).
The simplest way of determining what elements make up the different nutrients is by heating them and studying the products of decomposition, as follows: To show that Carbohydrates contain Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen.
The digested nutrients are taken up by the capillaries and the lymph vessels and transferred by two routes to the circulation.
The first of these changes is preparatory to the entrance of the nutrients and is known as digestion.
The plan of the body is such as to require a mixed diet, and all of the great classes of nutrients are necessary.
Proteids, carbohydrates, and fats are the nutrients that supply most of the body’s nourishment.
By digestion the nutrients are reduced to the form of a solution.
It acts with vigor on all of the nutrientsinsoluble in water, producing the following changes: 1.
To provide against emergencies, and to keep up a uniform supply of food to the cells, it is necessary that the body store up nutrients in excess of its needs.
To get from the digestive organs into the blood, the nutrients must pass through the mucous membrane lining these organs and also the walls of blood or lymph vessels.
The chemical agents which bring about the changes in the nutrients are called enzymes, or digestive ferments.
It is necessary, therefore, to reduce to the liquid state all nutrients not already in that condition.
The general plan of storage varies with the different nutrients as follows: 1.
For long periods a continual supply of nutrients must be provided.
Mars, at least in microenvironments, and thatnutrients would be available.
In a liquid substrate, nutrients and oxygen would be depleted, and waste products would accumulate around the cell.
The absence of convective transfer raises a problem as to how nutrients may be obtained and waste products removed in living cells during weightlessness.
Proper choice of Chlorella strains and media will produce not only the necessary calories but also the necessary specific nutrients required.
If the dead bark is removed and the wounds painted they will soon heal over, unless the tree is suffering for moisture and nutrients at the roots.
The nutrients lost by paring root vegetables and cooking them in water consist not only of carbohydrates, but of ash and other valuable materials.
The steam thus becomes hotter than boiling water, hence a baked potato is cooked at a higher temperature than a boiled potato, and no nutrientsare lost.
This results in both loss of nutrients and flavor.
Loss of nutrientsin such a steamer can be avoided by placing the vegetable in a pan or plate and inserting the latter in the upper portion of the steamer.
The per cent ofnutrients in a food does not always indicate the quantity of nourishment it will yield.
The following shows the approximate quantity of nutrients shown in the two quantities: In 1 quart of milk [Footnote 52: By permission Journal of Home Economics, Vol.
Explain why the per cent of nutrients in a food does not always indicate the quantity of nourishment that the nutrients yield to the body (see Per Cent of Nutrients; Nutritive Values).
By using the type of steamer which has perforations at the top of the upper pan (see Figure 31), no loss of nutrients occurs, provided the accumulated vegetable broth is used.
These foods should be considered as a part of the meal and should not be added after enough othernutrients have been eaten.
Since eggs are both high in nutrients and easily digested, they serve as a most important article of diet for the sick.
It is especially necessary that a girl growing into womanhood use foods which furnish building and energy- giving nutrients in sufficient quantity as well as materials to promote growth.
All the foodstuffs or nutrients should be represented in the foods of a meal, or at least in the foods composing a day's diet.
For very young children the juice of orange or the pulp of cooked prunes should be given daily, because they contain valuable nutrients and possess laxative properties.
The sugars differ from the other nutrients in possessing a more or less decided taste.
This way, the nutrients in the soil stay in balance and can be used to raise more carrots some other year.
Only with the relatively recent recognition that seabirds contribute to the recycling of nutrients back into the ocean to an important degree, have seabirds gained a new scientific constituency.
Speed of molt may also reflect availability of energy resources or of nutrients needed for feather growth (Payne 1972), but must also be influenced by the need for full flight capabilities to obtain food.
It is recognized now that seabirds transfer and recycle nutrients and energy between trophic levels and between regions of an ocean (Sowl and Bartonek 1974).
Sidenote: Only proteid foods contain nitrogen] Protein is the most important group of nutrients in the animal body.
Since fats and proteids are the only nutrients supplied by flesh foods, we may well ask, "Is meat the best source from which these elements may be secured?
As a result of an unbalanced bill of fare, the nutrients taken in excess of the daily needs undergo a form of decomposition, producing what is called autointoxication, and become a most prolific source of dis-ease.
Aquatic Systems The oceans are the basins into which are poured all the nutrients or wastes transported from the land by rivers and winds.
Radioactive forms of minerals and nutrients are deliberately introduced into biosystems--in measured amounts and under conditions of control--for studies of metabolic cycles and rates of flow of energy and nutrition.
The presence of man-made radioactivity in water has made it possible to follow the disposition of nutrients and wastes in the restless aquatic ecosystem.
Obviously they are unable to digest or assimilate nutrients or they wouldn't be wasting.
White refined sugar contains absolutely no nutrients at all; the "good" or "natural" sweets also carry so little nutrition as to be next to useless.
Wheat grass juice has a powerful anti-tumor effect, is very perishable, is laborious to make, but is worth the effort because it contains powerful enzymes and nutrients that help detoxify and heal when taken internally or applied to the skin.
First, from the viewpoint of the universal formula for health, no form of non-artificial sweetener carries enough nutrients with it to justify the number of calories it contains, not even malt extract.
The body only produces growth hormone at certain times and only when certain nutrients are present in the blood.
This short-term elevated flow of blood flow brings increased supplies of oxygen andnutrients to all parts of the body, facilitating healing and repair.
If all the digestive processes have been efficient there now are an abundance of soluble nutrients for the blood stream to distribute to hungry cells throughout the body.
The huge hepatic artery also enters the liver to supply oxygen andnutrients with which to sustain the liver cells themselves.
As vital force inevitably declines with age, the quantity and quality of digestive enzymes decreases, then the ability to breakdown and extract soluble nutrients from food is diminished, frequently leading to serious deficiencies.
In chronic illness, megadoses of many nutrients are usually beneficial.
Since the food furnished was composed of purenutrients and always in excess of the appetite of the rat the necessary number of calories was also present.
It must contain the kinds of nutrients that go to make up an adequate diet and in the percents suitable for this purpose.
Hopkins in England announced that the addition of 4 per cent of milk to diets consisting of purified nutrients would convert them into growth producers.
Shows recovery on addition of butter fat to a diet containing all the nutrients and artificial protein free milk.
It is evident from the previous data that a growing infant must not only be provided with a sufficient supply of calories, nutrients and salts, but must also have a liberal supply of the three vitamines.
But unlike the furnace, when the human body is deprived of needed nutrients it preys upon itself and uses up its reserve that should be drawn upon only in cases of illness or extreme nervous strain.
The indigestible nutrients in the feces are deducted from the total nutrients of the food, the difference being the amount digested, or oxidized in the body.
Animal foods are concentrated, in that they furnish large amounts ofnutrients in digestible forms.
What nutrients are present to the greatest extent in oranges?
It enters into the composition of the body, and without it the nutrients of foods would be unavailable, and life could not be sustained.
The change is in solubility and form, and not in amount ofnutrients available.
Cheese is popularly termed indigestible, and rice digestible, when in reality the nutrients of cheese are more completely although more slowly digested than those of rice.
By moving the decimal point two places to the left, the figures will represent the nutrients in one pound, and if this is multiplied by the number of pounds or fraction of a pound used, the quantity of nutrients is secured.
In human feeding, as in animal feeding, it is not possible to lay down hard and fast rules as to the quantity of nutrients required for a standard ration.
Show how it is possible for one family to spend less money for food than another family, and yet secure more digestible nutrients and energy.
Hard and fast rules governing the amounts of nutrients to be consumed cannot as yet be formulated, as our knowledge of the subject is too limited.
As discussed in the chapter on Dietary Studies of Families, unnecessarily expensive foods are often used, resulting either in lack of nutrients or unbalanced rations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nutrients" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
