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Also known as nourishment, aliment, nutritional physiological phenomena, nutritional physiological phenomenon, nutritional phenomena, nutritional physiology

thumb|upright=1.5|alt=see caption|A purple leaf blue butterfly (Amblypodia anita) gathering [[nutrients from guano]]

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Encyclopedic overview

18 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Nutrients
  • Nutritional groups
  • Diet
  • Nutrient cycle
  • Foraging
  • Nutrient deficiency
  • In organisms
  • Animal
  • Human
  • Domesticated animal
  • Plant
  • Fungus
  • Protist
  • Prokaryote
  • See also
  • References
  • Bibliography

thumb|upright=1.5|alt=see caption|A purple leaf blue butterfly (Amblypodia anita) gathering [[nutrients from guano]]

Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food and water to support its life. The intake of these substances provides organisms with nutrients (divided into macro- and micro-) which can be metabolized to create energy and chemical structures; too much or too little of an essential nutrient can cause malnutrition. Nutritional science, the study of nutrition as a hard science, typically emphasizes human nutrition.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “nutrition” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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