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Lipids
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How do lipids make food more palatable? | They make it smooth and creamier |
| What is the most common type lipid? | Triglycerides |
| what are the three components of a triglyceride? | .Three fatty acid tails .one glycerol molecule .Three ester bonds |
| What is the reaction that joins the fatty acids and glycerol molecules together in an triglyceride? | Condensation reaction |
| what type of triglyceride chains have no double carbon bonds and are solid at room temperature? | saturated fats |
| why are unsaturated fats liquid at room temperature? | they have double carbon bonds in them these double bonds make kinks in the chains meaning the chains can't lie closely together so they are liquid at room temp. |
| what is the name of the triglyceride that is a vital component in cell membranes, steroid sex hormone and some growth hormones. | Cholesterol |