what is saturated fat?

Answer 1

Saturated fats are completely "saturated", in other words each fat molecule is covered in hydrogen atoms. Saturated fat is the "villain" of the three types of fat because it is known to increase health risks if too much is eaten over a long period of time. In particular, it has the effect of increasing blood cholesterol levels which, in turn, can lead to heart disease.

Answer 2

don't know how complex an answer you want so will keep it simple and then try to give you the answer I think you want. Saturated or unsaturated refers to the hydrogen on the carbon chains with the fats themselves. Saturated basically means all sites on the fats carbon chain where a hydrogen can be, contain a hydrogen, unsaturated means some of the possible sites are taken up by extra bonds between the carbons instead.

This basically means saturated fats end up being solid eg. Lard where as unsaturated fats end up being viscous liquid eg. sunflower oil. So from a health point think which is easier to carry around in your blood stream.

Answer 3

Stay away from saturated fats this the stuff that your heart doesn't need.

Answer 4

Saturated fat is fat that consists of triglycerides containing only saturated fatty acids. Saturated fatty acids have no double bonds between the carbon atoms of the fatty acid chain (hence, they are fully saturated with hydrogen atoms). There are several kinds of naturally occurring saturated fatty acids, with their only difference being the number of carbon atoms - from 1 to 24. Some common examples of saturated fatty acids are butyric acid with 4 carbon atoms (contained in butter), lauric acid with 12 carbon atoms (contained in Breast milk, coconut oil, palm oil, and cocoa butter), myristic acid with 14 carbon atoms (contained in cow milk and dairy products), palmitic acid with 16 carbon atoms (contained in meat) and stearic acid with 18 carbon atoms (also contained in meat

Answer 5

Saturated fat is fat that consists of triglycerides containing only saturated fatty acids. There are several kinds of naturally occurring saturated fatty acids, with their only difference being the number of carbon atoms - from 1 to 24. Some common examples of saturated fatty acids are butyric acid with 4 carbon atoms (contained in butter), lauric acid with 12 carbon atoms (contained in Breast milk, coconut oil, palm oil, and cocoa butter), myristic acid with 14 carbon atoms (contained in cow milk and dairy products), palmitic acid with 16 carbon atoms (contained in meat) and stearic acid with 18 carbon atoms (also contained in meat).

Fat that occurs naturally in living matter such as animals and plants is used as food for human consumption and contains a varying proportion of saturated and unsaturated fat. Foods that contain a high proportion of saturated fat are butter, ghee, suet, tallow, lard, coconut oil, cottonseed oil and palm kernel oil, dairy products (especially cream and cheese), meat as well as some prepared foods.

Dehydrogenation converts saturated fats to unsaturated fats, while hydrogenation accomplishes the reverse.

Diets high in saturated fat correlate in some studies with an increased incidence of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease.

Answer 6

saturated fat are fat that protect the body

Answer 7

it is fat that the body finds very hard to break down so gets stored making a person fat

Answer 8

Fat that's been left out in the rain?

Answer 9

Phil Jupitas, caught in the rain.

Answer 10

Its nasty stuff that is put into food to make it taste better.

peter your rather cute!

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