Sentences with phrase «nonnutritive substances»

12 Pica, an eating disorder in which sufferers develop an appetite for nonnutritive substances such as paint and dirt, affects up to 30 percent of young children.

But components of pulses can have negative impact on public health due to nonnutritive substances like phytates, oxalates, saponins, lectins and agglutinins.

Not exact matches

In contrast, the term «energy drink» refers to a very different type of beverage containing substances that act as nonnutritive stimulants, such as caffeine, guarana, taurine, ginseng, i - carnitine, creatine and / or glucuronalctone, with purported ergogenic or performance effects.