Pure curiosity, and the title is pretty much my question. I’ve noticed that nutritional labels (USA) say something like 0g of trans fat, 10g of saturated fat (50% daily value)… but then it lists the total fat as 20g and only 26% of the daily value. 50% obviously doesn’t equal 26% and 10g doesn’t equal 20g so it must mean there are way more types of fat out there than trans and saturated?
If there are other fats, why do labels not provide a breakdown of the others? Why are saturated fats special enough to be listed?
Thanks!
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Trans fats are one type of unsaturated fat, but it’s rare naturally and mostly occurs in processed foods because hydrogenated vegetable oil stores well without refrigeration. In addition to trans and saturated fats are many other monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats that are cis rather than trans.
They’re all just descriptions of the types of fatty acids present and the kinds of bonds and orientations in the long carbon chains that define fats.
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