They pass through the system with much nutriment unextracted.

This meat contains fully as much nutriment as beef.

It is very good food; one acre gives as much nutriment as six acres of wheat.

An acre of manioc is said to yield as much nutriment as six acres of wheat.

Corn fodder has substance, and pound for pound contains about two-thirds as much nutriment as hay.

In buying grains one gets much nutriment at little cost (when compared with other foods).

She habitually ate chocolates for their sustaining quality; they contained much nutriment in small compass, she said.

Thus much nutriment, they observed, might do.

The whole country abounds with fern: and the roots of this plant, if not very palatable, yet contain much nutriment.

One pound of dried split peas contains more than three times as much nutriment as one pound of fresh peas.

The sandy soil did not appear to contain much nutriment, but I thought that something might be gained by giving it a trial.

There is as much nutriment in a pound of wheat flour as in 3½ quarts of oysters, which weigh 7 pounds.

"Some of our best doctors claim that there is much nutriment in beer," he suggested.

(3) It makes an attractive dessert at the end of a substantial meal, without adding much nutriment.