What does nutritious mean?
Word: Nutritious
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Nutritious means full of the things your body needs to grow and stay healthy.
Synonyms: nourishing
How do you spell nutritious?
Syllables: nu - tri - tious
Tricky part: The word begins with the sound of 'new', but only two letters carry that sound. There is no e or w to write.
Watch out for: neutritious, newtritious, nootritious
Memory tip: Nutritious food has no empty extras, and neither does the start of this word: n and u, then straight on to the next sound.
Nutritious in a sentence
Example 1: My grandmother's vegetable soup is simple, cheap and very nutritious.
Example 2: Dates and peanuts make a nutritious snack for a long train ride.
Example 3: A nutritious lunch box gives you the energy to last through a long school day.
Fun Fact
Nutritious comes from the Latin verb nutrire, to feed or look after. The word nurse comes from the same root, since a nurse was first a person who fed and looked after a child.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Fusion
Choose the two parts that make the word described below:
Lentils, eggs and green vegetables are described by this word because they help the body grow strong. 1. deli 2. cau 3. nutri 4. ambi 5. tious 6. cious 7. sious 8. shous
a) 2 and 5
b) 3 and 6
c) 3 and 5
d) 1 and 6
Show answer
c) 3 and 5. Delicious is about taste and cautious is about care, so neither fits; the word for food that builds the body ends like ambitious.
Spell Probe
Find the misspelt word in the sentence and choose its meaning:
Our hockey coach says that millet porridge is a nutritous breakfast which keeps players alert until the midday meal.
a) a cereal crop with very small seeds
b) quick to notice what is happening
c) doing the body a lot of good when eaten
d) a person who trains players in a sport
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c) doing the body a lot of good when eaten. Coach, millet and alert are spelt correctly, but the word describing the breakfast has lost the i before its ending.
Word Puzzle
Match each word with its synonym:
1. nutritious 2. fragile 3. sturdy a. delicate b. wholesome c. robust
a) 1-b, 2-c, 3-a
b) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b
c) 1-a, 2-b, 3-c
d) 1-b, 2-a, 3-c
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d) 1-b, 2-a, 3-c. Wholesome food is good for you, fragile things are delicate, and sturdy things are robust.
Word Tally
Each word in the list has one letter missing. How many of the words are missing the letter 'e'?
nutrtious, vegtables, protin, minrals, vitamns
a) 4
b) 1
c) 3
d) 2
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c) 3. Vegetables, protein and minerals have each lost an e; the other two words have each lost an i.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which snack would a health poster call nutritious?
a) a packet of salted chips
b) a bottle of fizzy orange
c) sprouts with lemon and tomato
d) a bowl of sugary sweets
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c) sprouts with lemon and tomato
2. A cook wants to make the stew more nutritious. What should she add?
a) a splash of hot water
b) a handful of spinach
c) a spoonful of white sugar
d) a pinch of food colour
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b) a handful of spinach
