Sentence examples for rather than nutritional from inspiring English sources

But I planted them for visual rather than nutritional nourishment.

Some consume it indiscriminately, and succumb.Since the Veronia-eating chimps were discovered, more evidence has emerged suggesting that animals often eat things for medical rather than nutritional reasons.

Some researchers blame the quality of the soil for the decline; others cite the tendency of modern plant breeding to select for industrial qualities like yield rather than nutritional quality.

You might also be interested to know that some of the cultures that set their culinary course by the lights of pleasure and habit rather than nutritional science are actually healthier than we are -- that is, suffer a lower incidence of diet-related health troubles.

This study showed that an early therapeutic effect of EN on active adult CD is attributable to down-regulating systemic and intestinal inflammation rather than nutritional restitution.

Modern plant breeding has been focused primarily toward achieving high agronomic yields rather than nutritional quality, and conventional efforts like supplementation, diet diversification, and industrial fortification cannot mitigate the situation.

Prealbumin is more sensitive to changes in protein synthesis status than albumin, and its concentration closely reflects recent nutrition rather than overall nutritional status 40.

Since regulation of Atg14L and autophagy in cells and mutant mice that are either deficient or overexpressing ZBTB16 occurred under normal nutritional conditions, we hypothesized that ZBTB16 might respond to growth factor stimulation, rather than cellular nutritional status.

In the past, air drops have been highly inefficient in delivering food and have often been carried out for the psychological effect rather than the nutritional advantage.

It was only then, in the room with the agent, she claims, that she realized that rather than a nutritional supplement, she had been taking "the clear".

This trade-off and its indication of a toxic effect rather than a nutritional effect were not mentioned by Ricroch et al. [1].