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Nutritive

Of or pertaining to nutrition as the nutritive functions having the quality of nourishing nutritious nutrimental alimental as nutritive food or berries...


Food

Food, Pan masala, gutka are held to be food within the meaning of s. 2(v) of Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, Godawal Pan Masala Products Ltd. v. Union of India, (2004) 7 SCC 68 (101): AIR 2004 SC 4057.Food. In the Sale of Food and Drugs Act (see ADULTERATION) the word includes 'every article used for food or drink by man, other than drugs or water and any article which ordinarily enters into or is used in the composition or preparation of human food,' and also 'flavouring matters and condiments.'-(English) Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 51), s. 26; (English) Public Health Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 71), s. 72; and Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 31), s. 34. For power to make regulations as to the importation of good, see AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE; AGRICULTURAL MARKETING; (English) Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 32). See generally, ADULTERATION, also (English) Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1927.Means ...


Meroblast

An ovum as that of a mammal only partially composed of germinal matter that is consisting of both a germinal portion and an albuminous or nutritive one opposed to holoblast...


Non-alcoholic beverage base

Non-alcoholic beverage base, the non-alcoholic beverage bases in India cannot be treated or understood as new 'nutritive material absorbed or taken into the body of an organism which serves for the purpose of growth, work or repair and for the maintenance of the vital process' and an average Indian will not treat non-alcoholic beverage bases as of products or food preparations, Collector of Central Excise v. Parle Exports (P) Ltd., AIR 1989 SC 644 (652): (1989) 1 SCC 345: (1988) Supp 3 SCR 933....


Porpita

A genus of bright colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean The individuals are round and disk shaped with a large zooid in the center of the under side surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids and by slender dactylozooids near the margin The disk contains a central float or pneumatocyst...


Polyp

One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral...


Pistachio

The nut of the Pistacia vera a tree of the order Anacardiaceaelig containing a kernel of a pale greenish color which has a pleasant taste resembling that of the almond and yields an oil of agreeable taste and odor called also pistachio nut It is wholesome and nutritive The tree grows in Arabia Persia Syria and Sicily...


Metabolism

The act or process by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose as in the manufacture of the digestive enzymes Hence metabolism may be either constructive anabolism or destructive catabolism...


VerbarSiphonophora

An order of pelagic Hydrozoa including species which form complex free swimming communities composed of numerous zooids of various kinds some of which act as floats or as swimming organs others as feeding or nutritive zooids and others as reproductive zooids See Illust under Physallia and Porpita...


VerbarIdioplasma

That portion of the cell protoplasm which is the seat of all active changes and which carries on the function of hereditary transmission distinguished from the other portion which is termed nutritive plasma See Hygroplasm...


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