The phrase "nutritive elements" is grammatically correct and appropriate for written English.
It refers to the essential components of food that provide nourishment and promote growth and maintenance of the body. Example: "A well-balanced diet should include a variety of nutritive elements such as protein, carbohydrates, and vitamins."
In his landmark book, "Cuisine Minceur" (William Morrow, 1976), Michel Guerard wrote that steaming "is a process filled with fragrances that also causes the fat to 'sweat' out of food while preserving the nutritive elements (minerals, vitamins) and the original, essential flavors".
Nutritive elements used for the fertilizing solution added one day before inoculation: Nitrogen (1N) or no nitrogen (0N).
Rats were fed with standard pellets, containing all nutritive elements, drinking water ad libitum, and were acclimatized for 1 week prior to the treatment.
Results revealed that inoculation with mycorrhiza and Pseudomonas rhizobacteria under drought stress significantly increased the concentration of nutritive elements, and likewise the activity of antioxidant enzymes.
For these reasons, increasing attention has been given to find the best methods to spread OMW on agricultural lands and to recycle both the organic matter and the nutritive elements in the soil crops system.
This study aimed to investigate the concentration of nutritive elements as well as the antioxidant activity of enzymes such as catalase, superoxide dismutase, ascorbate, and peroxidase in Calotropis procera Ait.
But the growth and produce depend on the biochemical quality of the substrates and the availability and facility for using a nutritive element.
The primary nutritive element, hemoglobin, is digested intracellularly in acidic phagolysosomes of the digestion cells.
Oxidative damage is balanced by endogenous antioxidants; however, the additional protection provided by nutritive and nonnutritive elements in food is critical for chemoprevention of diseases [ 2].
Cadmium is a trace element that has no nutritive function in humans (Newman-Taylor 1998), and it is a probable lung carcinogen in humans according to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR 1999) Toxicological Profile for Cadmium.
They are considered to be nutritive when they satisfy nutritional needs and non-nutritive when they satisfy psychological needs [ 3, 4].
