Nourishing

a.

1.

Promoting growth; nutritious.

Adj.

1.

nourishing - of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew" Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive

alimental, alimentary, assimilable, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, dietetic, digestible, dining, eating, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gluttonous, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grass-eating, herbivorous, insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian, man-eating, meat-eating, mensal, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive, omnivorous, omophagous, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophagous, plant-eating, postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial, vegetable-eating, vegetarian