How can you distinguish saturated fat?

Answer 1

Unsaturated fat is found in vegetables, and saturated fat is found in most food like chips, cookies, ect.. Saturated fat usally creates fat on a body that's why it is better to eat unsaturated fat. So a basic answer is saturated fat is unhealthy and puts fat on your body, and unsaturated fat is better to eat.

Answer 2: What is above is true, and I will add that if you think about the word "saturated" it means that something is completely full -- so if you were looking at a saturated fat diagram, every C-H bond would be full. On an unsaturated fat, there would be double bonds where carbons would bond back to carbons -- basically the more H's you see in the diagram, the more saturated the fat is. I am attaching a diagram -- look down under "related links".

Answer 2

You can't see it with plain eye. You need to go into chemical level where you need to define how the different components are attached to each other. The best you can do to determine if something is saturated fat or unsaturated fat, you need to look at the nutritional values that you can find from the package.

Answer 3

by using hydrogen atoms