You can use dietary to describe anything that concerns a person's diet.
Dr Susan Hankinson has studied the dietary habits of more than 50,000 women.
As with all dietary changes, reducing salt should be done gradually.
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
You can use the word dietary to describe substances such as fibre and fat that are found in food.
...a source of dietary fibre.
dietary in British English
(ˈdaɪətərɪ, -trɪ)
adjective
1.
of or relating to a diet
nounWord forms: plural-taries
2.
a regulated diet
3.
a system of dieting
dietary in American English
(ˈdaɪəˌtɛri)
nounWord forms: pluralˈdieˌtaries
1.
a system of diet
2.
daily food allowance or ration
adjective
3.
of diet
4.
of a dietary
Word origin
ME dietarie < ML dietarium
Examples of 'dietary' in a sentence
dietary
The explanation was dietary fat and over eating.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Our dietary patterns include more than merely our bodily health.
Christianity Today (2000)
Yet his system handles dietary fats perfectly while mine goes wild.
Kowalski, Robert E The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure (1990)
So it may be to our advantage not to produce it and get it from dietary sources.
Holford, Patrick The Family Nutrition Workbook (1988)
The minister studied the dietary needs of the nation closely.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Success is usually followed by failure until the next successful dietary regime is found.
Stewart, Dr Alan & Stewart, Maryon The Vitality Diet (1990)
Following a dietary pattern recommended for diabetics.
Chaitow, Leon The Beat Fatigue Workbook - how to identify the causes (1988)
What is dietary fat and where does it come from?
The Sun (2011)
Dairy products are a major dietary source.
Mayes, Adrienne The Dictionary of Nutritional Health (1986)
But you may still need some extra dietary tweaks to benefit your grey matter.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Certain diseases are linked to particular dietary patterns.
Bloom, Carol & Gitter, Andrea (contributor) & Gutwill, Susan (contributor) & Kogel,Laura (contributor) & Zaphiropoulos, Lela (contributor) Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model (1994)
Perhaps the trait of handling dietary fats properly has been handed down through the generations.
Kowalski, Robert E The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure (1990)
One was sugar and the other was dietary fat such as cholesterol.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
If you have ticked any boxes in the first column then these are the dietary habits you need to change.
Wallace, Louise M & Bundy, Christine Coping with Angina (1990)
They are also the highest dietary source of zinc and for both the male and female zinc is essential for fertility.
Holford, Patrick The Family Nutrition Workbook (1988)
The following dietary regime should help.
Ridgway, Roy Caring for your Unborn Child (1990)
Cannot be digested by man or other mammals, so a dietary fibre.
Mayes, Adrienne The Dictionary of Nutritional Health (1986)
These sources of dietary fat include fish such as salmon, herring and tuna.
The Sun (2011)
With proper enzymes your body can make them from the others and although they are necessary for health they are not called dietary essentials.
Erdmann, Robert & Jones, Meirion Fats, Nutrition and Health (1991)
Used in measuring dietary fibre.
Mayes, Adrienne The Dictionary of Nutritional Health (1986)
In other languages
dietary
British English: dietary ADJECTIVE
You can use dietary to describe anything that concerns a person's diet.
The doctor has studied the dietary habits of more than 50,000 women.
American English: dietary
Brazilian Portuguese: dietético
Chinese: 饮食的
European Spanish: dietético
French: alimentaire
German: Ernährungs-
Italian: alimentare
Japanese: 食べ物の
Korean: 음식의
European Portuguese: dietético
Latin American Spanish: alimentario
All related terms of 'dietary'
dietary fibre
fibrous substances in fruits and vegetables , such as the structural polymers of cell walls, consumption of which aids digestion and is believed to help prevent certain diseases
dietary habit
A habit is something that you do often or regularly.
dietary vegan
a person who adopts a vegan diet on the grounds that it is beneficial to health , and who may use non-food animal products
dietary advice
If you give someone advice , you tell them what you think they should do in a particular situation.
dietary intake
Your intake of a particular kind of food, drink, or air is the amount that you eat, drink, or breathe in.
dietary supplement
a substance taken in addition to what you eat in order to promote health
dietary requirement
Your requirements are the things that you need.
recommended dietary allowance
the amount of an essential nutrient , as a vitamin or mineral, that has been established by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences as adequate to meet the average daily nutritional needs of most healthy persons according to age group and sex