Palm and coconut oil are over 80% saturated. They should be avoided. Read labels when shopping.
The verb is soak, soaks, soaking, soaked; to become saturated or cause to become saturated with liquid; to wet thoroughly; to drench.
Oil (vegetable oil usually) is reacted with hydrogen gas in the presence of a catalyst to form saturated fat (normally a solid at room temp)
The process of hydrogenation, which is quite simple (it involves letting hydrogen gas bubble through the oil) will cause the unsaturated fat to become saturated. This will make the oil less nutritious but easier to store.
A solution is saturated when it is no longer possible to dissolve an additional quantity of solute, at constant temperature.
The definiton of saturated oils is oil in thongs and condoms!
The fat that is solid at room temperature is Saturated fat. There are three main categories of fat: Saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated. It is beneficial to eat fats that are liquid at room temperature such as olive oil. Examples of solid fats include: butter, lard, margarine, tallow, coconut oil, palm oil, shortening, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, and fully hydrogenated vegetable oil.
saturated
About 1/3 of the fat in vegetable oil is saturated fat.
How a saturated solution can become supersaturated?
Coconut oil is high in saturated fat.
Palm and coconut oil are over 80% saturated. They should be avoided. Read labels when shopping.
No oil is purely one or the other, they are all mixtures. Palm oil has about the same amount of saturated fatty acids and monounsaturated fatty acids. Palm oil contains very little polyunsaturated fatty acids.
Lard has more saturated fats
saturated fat
The verb is soak, soaks, soaking, soaked; to become saturated or cause to become saturated with liquid; to wet thoroughly; to drench.
Coconut and palm oil are greater than 80% saturated. (Wikipedia)