Good Fats vs. Bad Fats
Good and Bad Types of Fats
Functon of Fats
- Provide Energy
- They Carry Vitamins
- Add taste
- Provide Tenderness-meats and baked goods
- Make You Feel Satiety
- Store Energy
Good Fats: Essential Fatty Acids
- Body Cannot Produce
- Needed to Make Hormones
Good Fats: Unsaturated Fats
- Liquid at Room Temp.
- Help Lower Cholesterol
- Monounsaturated-MUFAs
- Vitamin E
- Canola, Olive, and Peanut Oil
- Polyunsaturated-PUFAs
- Vitamin E, Omega 3, and Omega 6
- Corn, Fish, and Sesame Oil
Bad fats: Saturated fats
- Solid at Room temp.
- Raise Cholesterol Levels
- It is in Meats and Dairy Products
Good Fats + Hydrogenation = Trans Fats(bad)
- Solidifies Unsaturated Fats; Increases Shelf life
- Hydrogen Atoms Added
- Creates Trans Fatty Acids
- Contributes to Increasing Heart disease
- Used in Veggie Shortening (AKA): Crisco
- Used in Margarines
- Increases Bad Cholesterol
- Decreases Good Cholesterol
Cholesterol
Fat like substance
Transports Fatty Acids
Needed to Produce Horomonedes