Chapter Three Flashcards
Lipid
True Fats and Oils as well as fat like compounds
Lipoids
Fatlike Compound
Sterols
Fatlike Compound
Insoluble
Does not combine, when mixed together, separates easily
Glycerol
The backbone of a fat molecule
Fatty Acid
Composed of a chain of carbon atoms with hydrogen and a few oxygen atoms attached
Monoglyceride
A single fatty acid joined to a glycerol molecule
Diglyceride
Two fatty acids are joined to a glycerol molecule
Saturated Fatty Acid
Filled with as many hydrogen atoms as the carbon atoms can bond with and has no double bonds between carbons
Double Bond
Describes the type of chemical connection between two neighboring carbon atoms, each lacking one hydrogen atom
Unsaturated Fatty Acid
The carbon atoms are joined together by one of more of these double bonds
Monounsaturated
A fatty acid with only one carbon-to-carbon double bond
Polyunsaturated
A fatty acid with more than one carbon-to-carbon bond
Hydrogenation
The process of adding hydrogen to a fat
Trans-Fatty Acids
Produced by the partial hydrogenation of unsaturated vegetable oil