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Categories: Nutrition, Nutrients, Fatty acids

polyunsaturated fatty acid polyunsaturated fat long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid LC-PUFA long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids

An unsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has more than one double or triple valence bond per molecule; found chiefly in fish and corn and soybean oil and safflower oil WordNet 3.0

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An unsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has more than one double or triple valence bond per molecule; found chiefly in fish and corn and soybean oil and safflower oil WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

In biochemistry and nutrition, a polyunsaturated fat is a fat that contains a polyunsaturated fatty acid, which is a subclass of fatty acid characterized by a backbone with two or more carbon–carbon double bonds. Wikipedia

A fatty acid, such as arachidonic acid, that contains two or more carbon to carbon double bonds. Wiktionary

Fatty acid. Wiktionary (translation)

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unsaturated fatty acid

unsaturated fatty acids

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