Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Fat and Oils
- Fat insulates and protects your body
- Fats provide 9 calories per gram
- Fat is a essential nutrient for insulation, body energy and protection
- Food fact
- Fat definitions
- Hydrogenation: Good chemical process for making fat
- Butter: Fat extracted from milk
- Margerine: Butter substitute made from plant fat
- Lard: Extracted from animal fats
- Vegetable Oil: Made from plants
- Vegetable shortening: blend of hydrogenated oils
- Rancid: Decomposing fats
- What are oils?
- Oils are fats at room temp. They come from plants or fish
- Lipids
- Family of chemical compounds including fats and oils
- Cholesterol
- Fat like substance made of glucose or saturated fat ( in our blood)
- Great source of back up energy
- Secondary to carbohydrates
- Most concentrated source of energy
- Function of fat
- Supplies heat (insulation)
- Carries vitamin A,D,E,K
- Add food flavoring
- Satisfies hunger
- Protects organs
- Promotes healthy skin
- Fat solubule vitamins A D E K can ONLY dissolve in fat
- Fatty acids
- 2 Chemical chains that make up fats
- Saturated
- Polyunsaturated
- Monounsaturated
- Saturated fatty acids
- Fats that usually come from animal sources and are solid at room temp.
- Polyunsaturated fats
- Comes from veggies and fish, semi-liquid at room temp.
- Monounsaturated fats
- Semi solid or liquid at room temp.
- Trans fat
- Unsaturated fat molecule that is chem. changed
- Cholesterol is good because it is essential to live but its bad if you have too much
- Good: HDL cholesterol
- Bad: LDL cholesterol
- Trans fats are terrible for your health
- Look for "partially hydrogenated" on a nutrition label to see if its healthy or not
- Even though trans fats are unsaturated, its still very bad for your health