Value⁃based care (VBC) emphasizes the quality and cost⁃effectiveness of medical care, creating value and providing comprehensive services throughout the course. Person⁃centered care, patient⁃centered care, personalized medicine, and precision medicine lay the foundation of VBC. The ultimate goal of VBC is to maximize the patient’s benefit. In this paper, we discussed the application of VBC on clinical nutrition, namely value⁃based nutrition therapy, and its importance in realizing VBC from the following aspects: boost the discipline of clinical nutrition; set up hungry free hospitals; change the perception of nutrition therapy and recognize it as first⁃line therapy; organize multi⁃disciplinary teams for nutrition therapy; deliver nutritional diagnosis at admission; provide early, standardized, precise nutrition therapy; develop more nutritional formula; value health economic benefits; enhance efficacy evaluation of nutrition therapy and follow⁃ups. In practice, we should concrete the concept of“nutrition is a first⁃line therapy”, as nutrition therapy has a dual role in improving health outcomes and saving medical costs. Nutrition therapy is a good vehicle for and reflection of VBC.