trans fatty acid
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edittrans fatty acid (plural trans fatty acids)
- (organic chemistry) An unsaturated fatty acid in which one or more of the double bonds has the trans orientation instead of the usual cis orientation.
- 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 1, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
- Recently, however, scientists have found that trans fatty acids produced by hydrogenation actually raise blood cholesterol levels.
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edittype of unsaturated fatty acid
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edit- trans fatty acid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “trans-fatty acid”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.