NUTRITION
LIPIDS
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Question
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which fats tend to be higher in saturated fatty acids
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plant
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they are the same
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Animal
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processed foods
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Foods high in saturated fats include: Foods baked or fried using saturated fats. Meats, including beef, lamb, pork as well as poultry, especially with skin. Lard.
Detailed explanation-2: -Animal fats with stearic acid and palmitic acid (common in meat) and the fat with butyric acid (common in butter) are examples of saturated fats. Mammals store fats in specialized cells called adipocytes, where globules of fat occupy most of the cell’s volume.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: Animal fat has more saturated fatty acids, whereas vegetable oil has more of unsaturated fatty acids (specifically polyunsaturated fatty acids, means, lots of double bonds at many places in the chains).
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