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Nutritious vs Nutriceutical - What's the difference?

nutritious | nutriceutical |

As adjectives the difference between nutritious and nutriceutical

is that nutritious is (of food or drink) providing nutrients; healthy to eat while nutriceutical is both nutritionally and pharmaceutically beneficial.

As a noun nutriceutical is

a nutritious pharmaceutical.

nutritious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of food or drink) Providing nutrients; healthy to eat.

    • Related terms

    * nutrient * nutrition * nutritional

    nutriceutical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Both nutritionally and pharmaceutically beneficial.
  • :The C-- Team, along with consulting pharmacists and nutriceutical formulators, have developed, through a series of trials with actual medicinal marijuana patients, a way for anyone, anywhere, to make their own THC capsules.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A nutritious pharmaceutical