Other forms: nutrients
A nutrient is a substance in food that the body needs to grow. Essential nutrients, nutrient content, rich in nutrients.
They divide into macronutrients — protein, fat, carbohydrate — and micronutrients, the vitamins and minerals needed in tiny amounts. Essential means the body cannot make it and must be given it. In farming, nutrient runoff into rivers causes algal blooms. Note nutrition; and that the Latin means nourishing.
1nounnutrientA substance in food that the body needs to grow.
“Spinach is full of iron and other nutrients that growing children need.”
nutrient is a substance in food.
Latin nutriens is the participle of nutrire, to nourish. Nurse, nourish and nutrition come from the same feeding.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)neh₂-
Latin
nūtriēns
English, today
nutrient
Built from
Borrowed from Latin nūtriēns, present participle of nūtriō (“to suckle, nourish, foster”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA