Youth Expo
Updated October 2024
Posted August 2023

Benefits of Pork
- Pantothenic Acid (B5)
- Releases elegy from foods
- Forms cholesterol, hormones & hemoglobin
- Thiamin (B1)
- Builds & repairs nerves & muscles
- Maintains appetite
- Releases energy from carbs
- Iron
- Builds hemoglobin in red blood cells
- Helps with energy production
- Prevents nutritional anemia
- Fat
- Protects & insulates
- Nourishes skin
- Transport vitamins A, D, E, and K
- Promotes normal growth
- Supplies essential fatty acids
- Riboflavin (B2)
- Releases energy from proteins
- Maintains nervous system
- Builds & repairs tissues
- Healthy skin & eyes
- Vitamin B6
- Releases energy from proteins
- Helps transport amino acids
- Help from Niacin
- Aids in nervous system functioning
- Vitamin B12
- Maintains red blood cells
- Supports healthy nerve tissue
- Helps produce genetic material
- Supports cell function & metabolism
- Protein
- Regulates body processes
- Forms antibodies to fight infection
- Builds & repairs body tissues
- Niacin (B3)
- Releases energy from foods
- Maintains heaithy skin
- Support digestive tract
- Protects nervous system