Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Fats and oils
- Fats protect internal organs from shock and injury.
- Fats are 9 calories per gram.
- Fat: nutrient essential for body energy, insulation, and protection.
- Oils: fats that are liquid at room temperature.
- Oils come from plants/fish.
- Mypyramid has oils group. Myplate has no oils group
- Lipids: family of chemical compounds; oils and fats.
- Cholesterol: fat-like made of glucose and fat in blood.
- Fat is back-up energy. (2nd on carbohydrates)
- Fats are concentrated energy.
- Fat provides heat, vitamins (A,D,E,K), adds flavor, stops hunger, protects organs and healthy skin.
- Only ADEK vitamins can dissolve in fat.
- Fatty acids: saturated, unsaturated.
- 3 types: saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated.
- saturated comes from animals. solid
- poly: veggies and fish. semi-liquid
- mono: oils, semi solid.
- trans fat: chemically changed to solid fat.
- trans: last longer, heart-disease.
- visible fat: can see with eyes.
- cholesterol depends. fat in blood, animal tissues. needed.
- 2 types of cholesterol: HDL, LDL
- HDL is healthy, LDL is unhealthy.
- Saturated: increases LDL and HDL
- poly: decreases LDL and HDL
- mono: raise HDL and lower LDL
- hydrogenation: chemical process to make fat solid.
- The kind of fat matters more than the amount we eat.
- saturated: single bonds
- unsaturated: double and single bonds
- butter: fat from milk churned into a solid.
- margarine: made from fat and oils from plants.
- lard: from fat in animals.
- trans fats are made from partially hydrogenated oils.
- shape makes fats unhealthy.
- rancid: fats start decomposing.