Or just use victualia (from late Latin), which appears to be derived from victus (nourishment) and vīvō (live, survive).
In English this corresponds to victuals, and in German Viktualien of course¹.
1: E.g., as used in the name of Munich's Viktualienmarkt market square.
Edit: Conceptually it maps almost exactly to Latin "nutrimentum", and hence, English "nourishment".
As such, I supposed we could construct some neo-latin from it to more closely approximate it, such as vitimentum or rather vitalimentum - but if you look closely at vitalimentum, you'll notice it contains "alimentum" as a substring, and, well:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aliment#Etymology