2023-05-24 16:20:45
When you monitor your cholesterol level, you hear about saturated fatty acids that you should try to reduce in the diet. But what is it? Answer in Minute Doctor.
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The Mag of Health – France 5
THE Fatty acids are fat, they are the molecules that make up the fat. Molecules of saturated fatty acids are so named, because on the chain of atoms there is no more space.
Each carbon atom carries a maximum of hydrogen atoms. This gives a very straight, very rigid molecule. Saturated fatty acid is the tough guy of the bunch.
Saturated fatty acids: beware danger!
You find a lot of them in the butter, which is why it remains solid at room temperature. Saturated fatty acids are also very present in the charcuterie and in thePalm oil. It is an oil highly prized by manufacturers precisely because it remains pasty at room temperature. Without it and all of its saturated fatty acids, the spread would be too runny.
But beware, saturated fatty acids are suspected of promoting the cholesterol.
Prioritize unsaturated fatty acids
Unlike saturated fatty acids, there are unsaturated fatty acids, which are much more flexible, much more fluid. As on its molecules, there is still room to accommodate hydrogen atoms, it gives them a curvature, a certain flexibility.
This is the type of fat that you find, for example, in vegetal oils as’olive oilof sunflower or rapeseed. They are to be preferred. You now know all the shades of fat.
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