nutritious

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

nutritious
    adj 1: of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew" [syn:
           {alimentary}, {alimental}, {nourishing}, {nutrient},
           {nutritious}, {nutritive}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Nutritious \Nu*tri"tious\, a. [L. nutricius, nutritius, from
   nutrix, -icis, a nurse, nutrire to nourish. See {Nurse},
   {Nourish}.]
   Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental.
   -- {Nu*tri"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Nu*tri"tious*ness}, n.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

51 Moby Thesaurus words for "nutritious":
      alimental, alimentary, assimilable, balanced, beneficial, cannibal,
      cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, dietetic, digestible,
      dining, eating, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic,
      gluttonous, good, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous,
      grass-eating, healthful, healthy, herbivorous, insect-eating,
      insectivorous, lactovegetarian, life-giving, man-eating,
      meat-eating, mensal, nourishing, nutrient, nutritive, omnivorous,
      omophagous, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophagous, plant-eating,
      postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial, salubrious,
      salutary, vegetable-eating, vegetarian, wholesome