Soy beans commend themselves for their nutritive value, but how many American housewives have made them a part of their food program?
But this is not the last word on the subject, since cereal foods, while cheap, differ among themselves in cost and somewhat in nutritive value.
These have but little in the way of nutritive value, but they assist in rendering the nutrients with which they are associated more digestible.
Expensive cuts of meat, high-priced breakfast cereals, tropical fruits and foods which impart special flavors, add little in the way of nutritive value to the ration, but greatly enhance the cost of living.
Compare in nutritive value cream at 25 cents per quart with butter at 30 cents per pound.
It makes but little difference in what way flour is prepared as food, for in its various forms it has practically the same digestibility and nutritive value.
Sauces are generally served with fish to improve their flavor and increase their nutritive value.
Although necessary for flavoring, these have no nutritive value; in fact, the body throws them off as waste material when they are taken with the food.
Just as nutritive value is lost in the cooking of meat by certain methods, so it may be lost in the preparation of fish if the proper methods are not applied.
The addition of cheese to the stuffing used in stuffed tomatoes means added flavor, as well as nutritive value in the form of protein, the food substance in which the tomatoes themselves are lacking.
Most fish contains more water than does beef, hence it has not as high a nutritive value.
Its great importance as a food product is shown by the fact that three or four good sized bananas are equal in nutritive value to a pound of bread.
In composition, the nuts rank high in nutritive value, but owing to the oily matter which they contain, are difficult of digestion, unless reduced to a very minutely divided state before or during mastication.
The small rice is much sweeter and somewhat superior in point of nutritive value to the large or head rice usually met with in commerce.
With the exception of sugar, which we use largely for its agreeable taste, these substances have no nutritive value.
Bread of the standard described is readily digestible when at least twelve hours old and stands high in nutritive value.
This method does not affect the flavor or nutritive value of food so much as freezing.
From the standpoint of economy they occupy a high place in nutritive value, especially for outdoor workers.
Oats are equal to wheat in their amount of flesh-forming matters; but their very high proportion of indigestible woody fibre detracts from their nutritive value.
The Carrot bears a close resemblance to the parsnip, from which, however, it differs, containing no starch, and being somewhat inferior in nutritive value.
If there be a tax on the system in order to convert starch into fat, it is evident that 2-1/2 parts of starch, though convertible into, are not equivalent in nutritive value to one part of fat.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nutritive value" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
