Sentences with phrase «acid chain length»

The liberated free fatty acids have a distinct flavor and odor which are more disagreeable when the fatty acid chain length is shorter than 14 carbons

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Milk fat is not only characterized by a number of different fatty acids, but also by their chain length.

Fatty acid size is measured by «chain length,» which is shorthand for the number of carbon atoms linked together in a chain.

MCTs or Medium Chain Triglycerides are fatty acids of a certain length.

The lipid profile of the livers of DR mice is correspondingly shifted towards lowered triglyceride content and shorter chain length of triglyceride - associated fatty acids, and these effects become more pronounced with age.

Fatty acids can be put into three categories based on the molecular length of carbon atoms connected to hydrogen atoms: short - chain that have less than 6 carbon atoms, medium - chain that have between 6 - 12 carbon atoms and long - chain that have between 13 - 21 carbon atoms.

MCTs or Medium Chain Triglycerides (of Medium Chain Fatty Acids) are fatty acids of a certain length, as the name suggAcids) are fatty acids of a certain length, as the name suggacids of a certain length, as the name suggests.

Medium - chain triglycerides, or MCTs, are a super-special type of fats (or fatty acid) that are six to 12 carbons in length.

The properties of a fat, and whether it's healthy for you or not, depends on the chain - length of its fatty acids, and the degree of hydrogen saturation of its fatty acids.

According to a recent book «Becoming raw» (2010) by two experts on vegan nutrition, namely, Davis and Melina, saturated fatty acids differ depending on the length of their carbon chain and include lauric acid, myristic acid, palmitic acid and stearic acid.

Fatty acids also differ in the length of the carbon chain.

The properties of fats and fatty acids depend on their degree of hydrogen saturation and the length of their molecules, or «chain length.»

Researchers now know that weight loss associated with coconut oil is related to the length of the fatty acid chains contained in coconut oil.

Medium Chain Triglycerides (MCT) are mixed triglycerides of saturated fatty acids with a chain length of 6 to 12 carbon atoms, mainly C8 (caprylic acid) and C10 (capric aChain Triglycerides (MCT) are mixed triglycerides of saturated fatty acids with a chain length of 6 to 12 carbon atoms, mainly C8 (caprylic acid) and C10 (capric achain length of 6 to 12 carbon atoms, mainly C8 (caprylic acid) and C10 (capric acid).

Because of the shorter chain length of the fatty acids, MCTs are rapidly broken down and absorbed into the body.

Triglycerides are named after their chemical structure, more specifically the length of their fatty acid chains.

Unsaturated fatty acids are more likely to be liquid at room temp than saturated fatty acids, regardless of chain length.

Intake of small - to - medium - chain saturated fatty acids is associated with peripheral leukocyte telomere length in postmenopausal women.

-LSB-...] With a shorter chain length than fatty acids, they take a much «quicker» pathway (think of it as a shortcut) when they're metabolized, which allows them to be converted to ketones and used for fuel, rather than being stored as fat (8).

The two essential fatty acids are also long chain, each 18 carbons in length.

No, they contain so - called Medium Chain Triglycerides (MCTs)-- which are fatty acids of a medium length.

The length of the fatty acid chain is important because the physiological effects of MCTs in coconut oil are very different from LCTs.

Secondly, coconut oil's saturated fats are «Medium Chain Triglycerides» (MCTs), medium - length fatty acids that go straight to the liver from the digestive tract, where they quickly become a source of energy.

It also seems to depend on the «chain length» of the fatty acid.

I wasn't quite sure what it meant, and I thought I knew everything about propionic acid — a short - chain saturated fatty acid produced in the gut from the fermentation of resistant starch, but I Googled it one more time just for shits and grins, and sure enough — the first search result turned up a breaking news story about propionic acid and increased tail length in juvenile rhesus monkeys.

Specifically, there is a progressively smaller LDL - cholesterol - raising effect with substitution for carbohydrate of saturated fatty acids of increasing chain length, with the largest increase observed for lauric acid (12 carbons), and no significant increase with stearic acid (18 carbons).

The diet employs medium - chain fatty acids as a fat source (fats come in short, medium, and long - chain types which relate to the length of their chain of their carbon chain) and it turns out that MCT's have a direct anti-seizure effect.

The diet uses medium - chain fatty acids as a fat source (fats come in short, medium, and long - chain types which relate to the length of their chain of their carbon chain) and it turns out that MCTs have a direct anti-seizure effect.