HUMAN NUTRITION

Detailed explanation-1: -Saturated fatty acids are saturated with hydrogen because their carbon atoms form only single bonds. As a result, saturated fats are solid at room temperature. In contrast, unsaturated fatty acids have gaps in their hydrogen saturation, because their carbon atoms form one or more double bonds.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fatty Acids A saturated fatty acid tail only consists of carbon-carbon single bonds, and an unsaturated fatty acid has at least one carbon-carbon double or triple bond. Fatty acids are distinguished from one another by the lengths of their hydrocarbon tails and degrees of unsaturation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Fatty acids that contain only single carbon-carbon (C-C) bonds are called saturated fatty acids because all carbons form the maximum number of bonds to hydrogen. Saturated fatty acids tend to have a straight 3-D shape. Fatty acids that contain at least one double C-C bond are called unsaturated fatty acids.