Trans fat is man - made fat formed by artificially «transforming»
polyunsaturated liquid fats (corn, soybean, safflower, sunflower, and cottonseed oils) to solid fats.
Not exact matches
Replacing solid
fats with
liquid oils and non-hydrogenated
fats will replace saturated and trans fatty acids with healthier monounsaturated and
polyunsaturated fats.
Monounsaturated and
polyunsaturated fats are considered as better than saturated
fats, and saturated
fats are better than artificial trans
fats which are created in an industrial process that adds hydrogen to
liquid vegetable oils to increase their shelf life and make them solid, easy to use and inexpensive to produce.
Wouldn't want it permanently rigid (from the trans
fats found in margarines and shortenings) or flaccid (from
liquid polyunsaturated oils), would we?
Polyunsaturated fat, like corn oil is
liquid at room temperature.
Hydrogenation: This is the process that turns
polyunsaturates, normally
liquid at room temperature, into
fats that are solid at room temperature — margarine and shortening.
In comparison,
polyunsaturated fats (oils that are
liquid at room temp) don't react well to heat.
Unsaturated
fats are
liquid, and they are found in two basic forms: monounsaturated (for example, olive oil) and
polyunsaturated (for example, fish and vegetable oils).
Large amounts of
polyunsaturated fats are new to the human diet, due to the modern use of commercial
liquid vegetable oils.
Polyunsaturated fats were a no - go due to being
liquid.
The study compared two diets, one rich in
liquid vegetable oils (high
polyunsaturated fats) and the other rich in hydrogenated vegetable oil (high in trans and saturated
fats).
When you pour
liquid cooking oil into a pan, there's a good chance you're using
polyunsaturated fat.
Most
liquid fats like vegetable and fish oils are
polyunsaturated.
Polyunsaturated fats do not pack together as tightly as saturated
fats and hence are
liquid at room temperature and remain so even if refrigerated.