nutritional science
Sign in to saveAlso known as trophology, nutritional sciences, nutrition science, nutrition, nutritional balance of food
science that interprets the nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism
Research
193,906 papers- Advances in nutritional science and physiological function: an editorial review.Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care · 2024
- 'Big History', history and citations in nutritional science.Journal of nutritional science · 2022
- Functional Foods in Modern Nutrition Science: Mechanisms, Evidence, and Public Health Implications.Nutrients · 2025
- Advancing Nutritional Science: Contemporary Perspectives on Diet's Role in Metabolic Health and Disease Prevention.Nutrients · 2025
- Meal Pattern Analysis in Nutritional Science: Recent Methods and Findings.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- academic discipline
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- is the study of
- eating
- topic has template
- Template:Nutrition navs
- different from
- nutrition
- topic's main category
- Category:Nutritional science
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Encyclopedic overview
Nutritional science (also nutrition science, sometimes short nutrition, dated trophology) is the science that studies the physiological process of nutrition (primarily human nutrition), interpreting the nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “nutritional science” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.