What is the chemical difference of saturated fatty acid and unsaturated fatty acid?

Answer 1

Saturated fats are solid at room temperature. They are mainly animal fats such as beef, pork and chicken and in animal products such as milk, butter, cheese and eggs. Too much of these fats can collect along the walls of your blood vessels. This can lead to Heart disease, and a poor profile of the bad fat and cholesterol in the blood.

Unsaturated fats are liquid at room temperature. These are mainly plant fats such as corn, safflower, olive, walnut, canola and others. These fats can help clean the blood vessels however; too much of some of these fats can lead to heart disease. Other unsaturated fats, called omega-3 fatty acids can help clear out the blood vessels and also help with brain function and eye function.

Saturated fatty acids have carbons joined via single bonds only, Unsaturated have both double bonds and single bonds between the carbon atoms
Saturated fatty acids have already formed the maximum number of double hydrogen bonds, while unsaturated ones have not

Answer 2

Saturated fatty acids do not have double bonds between carbon atoms and unsaturated fatty acids have double bonds between carbon atoms.

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To make this a little clearer, a saturated fatty acid chain would have single bonds between carbon and unsaturated would contain at least one double bond.

Answer 3

Fats that contain palmitic acid and stearic acid are known as saturated fats. These are solid at room temperature. Fats that have a lot of oleic acid in them, however, are liquid at room temperature and called unsaturated fats.

Answer 4

Saturated fatty acids have no double covalent bonds between carbon atoms. The carbon in the chain is saturated with all the hydrogens it can hold. Saturated fatty acids account for the solid nature at room temperature of fats such as lard and butter. Unsaturated fatty acids have double bonds between carbon atoms wherever the number of hydrogens is less than two per carbon atom. Unsaturated fatty acids account for the liquid nature of vegetable oils at room temperature.

Answer 5

While both unsaturated fat and saturated fat are in a variety of foods.

Answer 6

Saturated fatty acids have carbons joined via single bonds only, Unsaturated have both double bonds and single bonds between the carbon atoms