Nutrition education is an essential component of any Farm to School Program as it can improve children's knowledge about nutrition and where food comes from as well as their food choices and physical activity habits.  Nutrition education activities can also help children to understand the importance of the other Farm to School Program components.  Current California State Education Code specifies that nutrition education content in the health curriculum should be designed to help students learn the following:

• Nutritional knowledge, including but not limited to, the benefits of healthy eating, essential nutrients, nutritional deficiencies, principles of healthy weight management, the use and misuse of dietary supplements, and safe food preparation, handling, and storage.
  
  
• Nutrition-related skills, including, but not limited to, planning a healthy meal, understanding and using food labels, and critically evaluating nutrition information, misinformation, and commercial food advertising.
  
  
• How to assess their own personal eating habits, set goals for improvement, and achieve those goals by using the Food Guide Pyramid, Dietary Guidelines for Americans, Nutrition Fact Labels, and the Physical Activity Pyramid.