Question

Lipids that are consumed in the diet are absorbed into the intestinal mucosal cells. From here, all of the following molecules, with the exception of ____, are not soluble in water, and are thus packaged for transport.

Answer 1

small fatty acids

Step-by-step explanation:

About 95% of the lipids that are ingested in the digestive system are absorbed in small intestine. The bile salts produced by the liver not only speed up the lipid digestion process but also they are essential to absorption of end products of the lipid digestion. The small fatty acids which contains short chain carbons are relatively water soluble and can enter absorptive cells (enterocytes) via simple diffusion and then take the same path as amino acids and monosaccharides into blood capillary.

The long-chain fatty acids (hydrophobic) are not easily suspended into watery intestinal chyme and they are packaged for transport via different mechanism.