Admittedly, it can be a struggle to get your recommended five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, especially if you can’t stand the taste of broccoli.

Yet eating vegetables doesn’t have to be a chore. And you don’t have to trick yourself, like a kid, by inventing elaborate stories that broccoli is a dinosaur tree.

Instead, pair the vegetables on your plate with something delicious and nutritious — pork. 

Pork is the perfect partner for vegetables and even fruits, says Dr. Kristen Hicks-Roof, a human nutrition expert and director of nutrition research at the National Pork Board, based in Clive.

“Pork brings the flavor. It helps boost the nutrition, not only from the pork but also when you get people to eat...