Interesting facts on Dietary FATs !!!

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Fats are made up of, complex chemical compounds, fatty acids. ...(1)
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Vegetable Oil	Butter	Various Nuts	Milk,Eggs & Cheese	Red Meat	Fish

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Fats are greasy, solid material found in animal tissue and in some plants such as coconut oil, sunflower oil, Nuts to name a few.

FAT, also called as Lipid, is a important source of energy for human body, besides protein and Carbohydrate. Energy produced by fat is 9 calories per gram whereas energy produced by protein and carbohydrate is 4 calories per gram.
Therefore, fat has more caloric value.

Some FATs stay solid at room temperature (e.g.butter) where as some stay liquid (e.g. oils).

I conducted an experiment to see if certain food items have FAT in it.

Click here to know more about the experiment

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