These three are the basic nutrients needed by all growing plants.

Only salt and sugar, among basic nutrients, are directly tasted.

Stores of the basic nutrients were available for five other star-roving species.

Perhaps a stronger role could be taken by American corporations in providing the basic nutrients to the seeds of their own future.

The bulk of the Enterprise's food was reconstituted from an algal base, so he knew that the basic nutrients his body needed should be present.

Three-quarters of Africa's farmland is severely depleted of basic nutrients needed to grow crops.

Blood agar is an enriched medium in which nutritionally rich whole blood supplements the basic nutrients.

The chemicals break down the flesh of the corpse into basic nutrients, allowing the flesh to rejoin nature most efficiently.

Yeast vats and algae farms produced basic nutrients, which were then processed with artificial flavors into palatable food.

Many children are eating just a single bowl of porridge a day, missing out on the basic nutrients they need to survive, says Save the Children.