nutritional value
nutritional value — collocation
1. how much a food helps keep your body healthy by supplying things such as vitamin
how much a food helps keep your body healthy by supplying things such as vitamins, protein, and energy that you need to live and grow.
Boiling vegetables for too long lowers their nutritional value.
the nutritional value of [food]
Darius checked the label to compare the nutritional value of two cereals.
compare the nutritional value of [foods]
Fresh fish has high nutritional value because it is rich in protein.
The school nurse explained that sugary drinks have almost no nutritional value.
Mayumi grows her own tomatoes to keep their nutritional value as high as possible.
- nutritional content
more neutral; names the nutrients present rather than their health benefit
- food value
older, slightly informal way of saying the same thing
文法句型
the nutritional value of [food]
have/contain nutritional value
用法筆記
Subject is usually a specific food or drink, and the phrase commonly pairs with amount words such as 'high', 'low', 'little', or 'no' to grade how healthy the food is.