The following list is the standards and benchmarks for Food and Nutrition.

Standard 1:  Advocate a Healthy Lifestyle

• Benchmark A:  Evaluate social and cultural factors that influence healthy lifestyle choices.
• Benchmark B:  Use problem solving to ensure an overall healthy body.
• Benchmark C:  Create and choose food patterns related to healthy lifestyle outcomes.
• Benchmark D:  Appraise restaurants and their menus related to a helthy lifestyle.
• Benchmark E:  Determine and evaluate nutrition information to guide food choices for a healthy lifestyle.
• Benchmark F:  Interpret and access factors associated with body weight.
• Benchmark G:  Validate the link between physical activity, sleep, helathy lifestyle and work performance.

Standard 6:  Ensure Food Safety

• Benchmark A:  Demonstrate safe food-handling practicies relted to food-borne pathogens.  Apply proper food handling techniques to develop plans for self and others in public and private settings.
• Benchmark B:  Develop and use critical thinking and reasoning to engage and select available resources and ensure an adequate, secure food supply.
• Benchmark C:  Identify, demonstrate, and use kitchen practicies that sustain the environment.  Evaluate consumer and inductry food-related practicies that sustain the environment.