Vitamin B5 is a water soluble vitamin that helps in fatty acid synthesis, maintain healthy digestive tract which is widely found in both plants and animals

The major function of this vitamin is to help turn the food you eat into energy especially making and breaking down fats. Pantothenic acid supplementation might help reduce lipid levels in patients with hyperlipidemia and its deficiency is usually accompanied by deficiencies in other nutrients making it difficult to identify the effects that are specific to pantothenic acid deficiency.