Mell's Kitchen Restaurant offers take - out service. A chef at Dina's Diner purchases an order of Mell's Kitchen's signature dish, takes it to a chemical laboratory, and has its composition analyzed. Based on this chemical analysis, the chef begins making and selling the same dish at Dina's. Mell's Kitchen, which has carefully guarded the dish's recipe, brings suit under trade secret law. What should the result be ?

A. Mell's Kitchen should prevail because Dina's obtained the trade secret through improper means.
B. Mell's Kitchen should lose because food items cannot be protected as trade secrets .
C. Mell's Kitchen should prevail because the chef at Dina's knew or should have known that the recipe was Mell's Kitchen's trade secret.
D. Mell's Kitchen should lose because Dina's action constitutes lawful reverse engineering