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What is true of saturated fatty acids?

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A saturated fat is a type of fat in which the fatty acids all have single bonds. ... Fats are made of long chains of carbon (C) atoms.
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Saturated fatty acids are the type of fatty acids where all of them have single bonds. Their name comes from the fact that usually the second bond they have will be broken up and because of this each half of the bond can be saturated (attached to) with a hydrogen atom that can be available in near vicinity. It is worth noting that thhe fatty acids of fish and plants are mostly unsaturated (either mono-unsaturated or poly-unsaturated) while the fatty acids of animals are mostly saturated.





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