# nutrition

Pronunciation: US say "noo-TRISH-uhn" /nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/; say "nyoo-TRISH-uhn" UK /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ən/, AUS /njʉːˈtɹɪʃ.ən/

## Noun

1. The biological process by which a living organism takes in food and uses it for growth and maintenance.
   - Simple: The way a living thing takes in food and uses it to grow and stay healthy.
   - _Proper nutrition supports tissue repair after surgery._
   - _Marine biologists study how deep-sea creatures obtain nutrition in near-total darkness._
2. The nourishing matter contained in food; nutriment that sustains life and growth.
   - Simple: The healthy parts of food that give the body what it needs to live and grow.
   - _The watery soup was warm but offered almost no real nutrition._
   - _Breast milk provides nearly all the nutrition a newborn needs in its first months._

## Origin

Borrowed from Middle French "nutrition," which came from Old French "nutricion," from Latin "nutritio."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/nutrition (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).