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Also 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

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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.

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