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calories/fat
what is polyunsaturated fat and monounsaturated fat? and what are calories from fat? like if something had 78 calories and calories of fat was 48 or something, what would that mean and what does it do for your health?
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1 gram of fat is 9 calories. Poly and monounsaturated fats have less hydrogen molecules attached to the actual lipid than saturated fat.
Calories from fat is pretty self explanatory- the amount of calories from the fat in the food. So since fat has 9 calories per gram- 48 calories from fat would be about 5.3 grams of fat.
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Here's a very helpful website-
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If you scroll down, there's a brief explanation on those types of fats. For any type of food you eat, the fat calories should be 40% or less. So lets say the thing you're eating is 100 calories total. If the fat calories were 40% less, that would be ok. So, if there's 15 calories of fat out of a 100 calorie product, that would be 15% of fat in the product, meaning it's less than 40% which is good. The website will give you a good explanation of this.
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