WGU NUTRITION D440 LATEST 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Acute kidney injury diet - ✔✔Limit protein, low potassium
✔✔Glomerulonephritis diet - ✔✔Sodium restriction, decreased protein and fluids, and
increase carbs
✔✔Where does glomerulonephritis come from? - ✔✔Untreated strep throat
✔✔High cholesterol/cardiac diet - ✔✔Increase soluble fiber, eat fish twice a week, limit
red meat
✔✔Cardiac diet (HTN, HF, and CAD) - ✔✔Sodium restricted, cholesterol controlled so
low, restrict sodium
✔✔High in cholesterol foods - ✔✔Shrimp, eel, sardines, egg yolk
✔✔Low in cholesterol foods - ✔✔Mackerel, salmon, trout, and scallops
✔✔High fiber fruits - ✔✔Apples, raspberries, prunes
✔✔Vitamin D food sources - ✔✔Fatty fish, milk, soy milk, sunlight
✔✔Vitamin E Foods - ✔✔Vegetable oils, dried apricots, spinach and turnips, almond
and hazelnuts, and extra virgin olive oil
✔✔Mediterranean diet - ✔✔Limits red meats, lots of olive oils, moderate red wine,
Whole Food heavy
✔✔15 grams of carbs - ✔✔1 serving of carbs
✔✔Kidney is associated with - ✔✔Potassium always
✔✔Paleo diet - ✔✔No dairy, grains, legumes, refined sugar; potatoes processed foods
and salt
✔✔Lactovegan - ✔✔Only dairy
✔✔Ovo vegan - ✔✔Can eat eggs
✔✔Lacto ovo vegan - ✔✔Eats eggs and milk
, ✔✔Neutropenic diet - ✔✔Avoids salad bars, take outs, and easy and peel fruits and
veggies
✔✔NG - ✔✔Nasogastric
✔✔NG tube is for how long? - ✔✔Less than 4 weeks
✔✔NG/PEG methods of administration - ✔✔Continuous, cyclic, intermittent, and bolus
✔✔NG/Peg is - ✔✔Enteral feeding
✔✔NG/PEG is when the gi tract - ✔✔Is functioning
✔✔Parenteral nutrition is for when gi - ✔✔Tract needs to be avoid and rest
✔✔2 types of parental nutrition - ✔✔Peripheral and central
✔✔Iron food sources - ✔✔Dried beans, egg yolks, oysters, salmon, tuna, liver, chicken,
beef, spinach, potatoes, dried apricots
✔✔Selenium food sources - ✔✔Turkey, lamb, chicken, Brazil nuts, organ meats, fish,
whole grains, seeds
✔✔Zinc is found in what food - ✔✔Seafood, meat, legumes, whole grains
✔✔Diet order - ✔✔Clear, full liquid, pureed/mechanical soft, and then regular
✔✔Clear liquid diet - ✔✔Clear and liquid at room temp so fruit juice, broth, gelatin,
popsicles, coffee, tea. And is for gi issues, pre and post op
✔✔Full liquid diet - ✔✔Blended soups, thin cereal cooked, milk, yogurt, fruit juice, ice
cream, pudding
✔✔Pureed/mechanical soft diet - ✔✔Cannot safely chew or swallow. No nuts or seeds.
Cooked cereals, rice, noodles, pasta, white bread. For stomatitis
✔✔1 ounce = ___ mL - ✔✔30 mL
✔✔1 cup = ___ oz - ✔✔8 oz
✔✔1 cup = _ ml - ✔✔240 mL
✔✔Carbs - ✔✔4 kcal/g
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Acute kidney injury diet - ✔✔Limit protein, low potassium
✔✔Glomerulonephritis diet - ✔✔Sodium restriction, decreased protein and fluids, and
increase carbs
✔✔Where does glomerulonephritis come from? - ✔✔Untreated strep throat
✔✔High cholesterol/cardiac diet - ✔✔Increase soluble fiber, eat fish twice a week, limit
red meat
✔✔Cardiac diet (HTN, HF, and CAD) - ✔✔Sodium restricted, cholesterol controlled so
low, restrict sodium
✔✔High in cholesterol foods - ✔✔Shrimp, eel, sardines, egg yolk
✔✔Low in cholesterol foods - ✔✔Mackerel, salmon, trout, and scallops
✔✔High fiber fruits - ✔✔Apples, raspberries, prunes
✔✔Vitamin D food sources - ✔✔Fatty fish, milk, soy milk, sunlight
✔✔Vitamin E Foods - ✔✔Vegetable oils, dried apricots, spinach and turnips, almond
and hazelnuts, and extra virgin olive oil
✔✔Mediterranean diet - ✔✔Limits red meats, lots of olive oils, moderate red wine,
Whole Food heavy
✔✔15 grams of carbs - ✔✔1 serving of carbs
✔✔Kidney is associated with - ✔✔Potassium always
✔✔Paleo diet - ✔✔No dairy, grains, legumes, refined sugar; potatoes processed foods
and salt
✔✔Lactovegan - ✔✔Only dairy
✔✔Ovo vegan - ✔✔Can eat eggs
✔✔Lacto ovo vegan - ✔✔Eats eggs and milk
, ✔✔Neutropenic diet - ✔✔Avoids salad bars, take outs, and easy and peel fruits and
veggies
✔✔NG - ✔✔Nasogastric
✔✔NG tube is for how long? - ✔✔Less than 4 weeks
✔✔NG/PEG methods of administration - ✔✔Continuous, cyclic, intermittent, and bolus
✔✔NG/Peg is - ✔✔Enteral feeding
✔✔NG/PEG is when the gi tract - ✔✔Is functioning
✔✔Parenteral nutrition is for when gi - ✔✔Tract needs to be avoid and rest
✔✔2 types of parental nutrition - ✔✔Peripheral and central
✔✔Iron food sources - ✔✔Dried beans, egg yolks, oysters, salmon, tuna, liver, chicken,
beef, spinach, potatoes, dried apricots
✔✔Selenium food sources - ✔✔Turkey, lamb, chicken, Brazil nuts, organ meats, fish,
whole grains, seeds
✔✔Zinc is found in what food - ✔✔Seafood, meat, legumes, whole grains
✔✔Diet order - ✔✔Clear, full liquid, pureed/mechanical soft, and then regular
✔✔Clear liquid diet - ✔✔Clear and liquid at room temp so fruit juice, broth, gelatin,
popsicles, coffee, tea. And is for gi issues, pre and post op
✔✔Full liquid diet - ✔✔Blended soups, thin cereal cooked, milk, yogurt, fruit juice, ice
cream, pudding
✔✔Pureed/mechanical soft diet - ✔✔Cannot safely chew or swallow. No nuts or seeds.
Cooked cereals, rice, noodles, pasta, white bread. For stomatitis
✔✔1 ounce = ___ mL - ✔✔30 mL
✔✔1 cup = ___ oz - ✔✔8 oz
✔✔1 cup = _ ml - ✔✔240 mL
✔✔Carbs - ✔✔4 kcal/g
