These terms are considered interchangeable by many in everyday use.\u00a0 From an animal perspective, we may consider both to refer to what we eat.\u00a0 In this resource, we restrict \u201cfood\u201d to specifically mean the calorie-rich materials (e.g., sugars) that organisms use as energy sources.\u00a0 Although producers don\u2019t eat like animals do, they do need food in this sense (and make it themselves through photosynthesis). \u00a0\u201cNutrients,\u201d on the other hand, are not calorie-rich materials but are important for other aspects of organism function.\u00a0 Thinking of vitamins and minerals as nutrients may help make this distinction.\u00a0 Like the components of fertilizer, vitamins and minerals are not food, but are required for healthy growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
These terms are considered interchangeable by many in everyday use.\u00a0 From an animal perspective, we may consider both to refer to what we eat.\u00a0 In this resource, we restrict \u201cfood\u201d to specifically mean the calorie-rich materials (e.g., sugars) that organisms use as energy sources.\u00a0 Although producers don\u2019t eat like animals do, they do need food Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1670","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1670\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}