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Nutritional science (also nutrition science, sometimes short nutrition, dated trophology[1]) 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.[2]
- ^ trophology. (n.d.) Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014. Online: [1] (retrieved 8 March 2021)
- ^ "Joint Collection Development Policy: Human Nutrition and Food". US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. 14 October 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2014.