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Q: About dietary lipids

Posted by biochemistryquestions on October 14, 2008

 

Lipid Question No. 12

 

Which of the following statements concerning dietary lipids is correct?

 

a)     Corn oil and soybean oil are examples of fats rich in saturated fatty acids

 

b)     Triacylglycerols obtained from plants generally contain less unsaturated fatty acids than those from animals

 

c)      Olive oil is rich in saturated fats

 

d)     Unsaturated fatty acids in our body are usually trans.

 

e)     Fish triacylglycerols are richer in unsaturated fatty acids than triacylglycerols from other animals.

 

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