While fat in general plays an important part in a healthy diet, the kind of fat in your food – either saturated or unsaturated fat – is something to consider when preparing snacks and meals. Often spoken of as “bad” fats and “good” fats respectively, saturated and unsaturated fats are present in many of the foods we eat. read more
For this, it’s important to understand the difference between saturated and unsaturated fats. A fat is considered saturated if all the carbons on the fatty acid chain have only one bond to a hydrogen atom. read more
From a chemical standpoint, polyunsaturated fats are simply fat molecules that have more than one unsaturated carbon bond in the molecule, this is also called a double bond. Oils that contain polyunsaturated fats are typically liquid at room temperature but start to turn solid when chilled. read more
Good Fats vs. Bad Fats. Basically, there are two groups of fats: saturated and unsaturated. Within each group are several more types of fats. Let's start with the good guys -- the unsaturated fats. Unsaturated fats include polyunsaturated fatty acids and monounsaturated fats. read more