Benita has a food truck where she selis spicy fried gorditas, Benita has been making the gorditas for years, using her familys rectipe that has been passed down from generation to generation. Benita wants to protect her family recipe from being reveated to anyone else, so Benita considers the options available to her for the protection of her intellectual property. Benita knows if she files a patent application, she would have to include a list of her ingredients. Because Benita's main concern is protecting the recipe from being revealed to anyone else, Benita's best approach is to treat the family fried gordita recipe as a:

patent:

trade secret.

copyright.

trademark.