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polyunsaturated fat
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Noun1.polyunsaturated fat - a class of fats having long carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated with hydrogen atoms; used in some margarines; supposedly associated with low blood cholesterol
fat - a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides); "pizza has too much fat"
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Oil C has the least polyunsaturation of the 3 oils (Table 4), hence the expected lowest K value as fresh oil, but here the comparatively lower ssa value may have more significance.
Some applications of viscometry from studies on the absorption of ... by G.H. Hutchinson; Davison, J.W. / JCT Research
Because meadowfoam oil contains long-chain fatty acids that have high levels of monounsaturation and very low levels of polyunsaturation, it is stable when heated, and it doesn't oxidize easily.
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