Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies
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Author: Frances Sizer, Ellie Whitney
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 5, Problem 4SC
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To determine:
Whether the statement ‘vegetable and fish oils are rich in saturated fat’ is true or false.
Given:
Vegetable and fish oils are rich source of saturated fat.
Introduction:
Saturated fats are the fatty acid chains having only single bonds. The unsaturated fats are those fatty acid chains having one or more double or triple bonds.
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