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Trans fats are hydrogenated unsaturated fats and they are supposed to be the worst fats there are for your health. Unsaturated fats are healthy fats and saturated fats and trans fats are unhealthy fats. Trans fats are often added to processed foods to extend the shelf life.
There are no such fats as cis fats. There are certainly cis fatty acids and trans fatty acids and the difference between the two is in the hydrogen atoms positions and one could be regarded as an isomer of the other.
All fats are basically triglycerides which means glycerol triesterified with 3 fatty acids.
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Do trans or cis fats have a higher melting point?
Cis fats would have a higher melting point due to tighter packing between molecules, as the chains would be unbent. Trans fats would have kinks in the fatty acid chain and this would hinder molecular packing, thus making it looser and would subsequently liquefy more easilyTrans fats are non polar while Cis fats are polar. Cis fats have strong inter molecular attractions. So melting point of cis fats are higher than trans fats.
What is the definition of Saturated fat?
With organic compounds, you can have carbon atoms bonded together with single bonds, double bonds, and triple bonds. If all of the carbon bonds in a fat are single bonds, the fat is saturated. If one of the bonds is a double bond, it is mono-unsaturated. If more than one bond is unsaturated, it is polyunsaturated. Sometimes industries add hydrogen to a double bond and make it hydrogenated. They can add it in one of two ways. They can make it a trans fat or they can make it a cis fat. Nature also hydrogenates fats. Nature makes cis fats. Your body has no problem with cis fats. Nature does not make trans fats. Your body has problems with trans fats. Industries can produce cis fats but find it easier to produce trans fats. Making trans fats illegal will force them to make cis fats.
Does different types of fat affect cookies?
in general there are three types of fats: unsaturated (cis), saturated and trans fats. unsaturated fats refer to those with tails that contain at least one double bond. the configuration of the molecule around the double bond could be straight (trans) or bent (cis). See below. /=/ ---> trans /=\ ---> cis Conversely, saturated fats are those that have no double bonds and conform to the CnH2n+2 rule.
Why are there three isomers of dibenzalacetone?
those are defined by position of double bonds, the possible one,s are cis-cis,cis-trans,trans-trans.
Is cis-trans confirmation or configuration?
Cis and trans are configuration.
Is C8H16 cis or trans?
cis
If Trans fats are inadvertently formed during the hydrogenation of vegetable oils is the hydrogenation of oils an oxidation or reduction reaction?
The parital hydrogenation of oils and fats reduces the cis double bonds in fats to give them a more solid form at room temperature. As the reduction process takes place at high temperatures, there is thermal isomerization of some of the cis bonds to their trans form.
Does 3-hexene have cis and trans isomers?
Yes: cis-3-hexene and trans-3-hexene.
How stable are cis-trans isomerisms?
The cis-trans isomerism tend to be very stable. Typically, trans isomers are more stable however, an exception lies in cis-trans isomers which makes them more stable than trans isomers.
What is the antonym of trans?
Opposite of latin `trans` is `cis`
Similarities between Cis fat and trans fat?
Most trans fats are the product of hydrogenated oils while cis fats are always found naturally. Because trans fats have a different atomic structure then cis fats, they are not metabolized properly by the human body. Additionally, trans fats are more prone to adversely affecting health.
What is difference between cis trans Golgi complex?
Cis and trans refers to the different faces of a Golgi complex. Vesicles come into the cis face from the ER and leave from the trans face to the plasma membrane or Lysosomes.
