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What is a Lipid? |
Organic Molecules made of oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen. Insoluble in water and dissolve only in fat solvents including enzymes such as lipase. |
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Lipids are a family of compounds that include |
fatty acids that form triglycerides, sterols such as cholesterol and steroid hormones, phospholipids such as lecithin |
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what percent of lipids in food and body are triglycerides and what makes up the rest?? |
95% and the rest are phospholipids lecithin example. and sterols cholesteral as example |
