nutrients definition google
uncountable noun. Nutrition is the process of taking food into the body and absorbing the nutrients in those foods. There are alternative sources of nutrition to animal meat. As in all experimental sciences, we still do not know everything about nutrition. Synonyms: food, nourishment, sustenance, nutriment More Synonyms of nutrition.
(n'trÄ-Ént) A substance that provides nourishment for growth or metabolism. Plants absorb nutrients mainly from the soil in the form of minerals and other inorganic compounds, and animals obtain nutrients from ingested foods.