(a.) Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental.

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