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- noun any
polyunsaturated fat orfatty acid - adjective polyunsaturated
Etymologies
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Examples
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A new study suggests that people whose diets contain dramatically more of one kind of polyunsaturate ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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Granted, it is an oil so it contains plenty of fat, it is nice to have another polyunsaturate option.
Grapeseed Oil: Good for you inside and out. Jennifer 2009
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Newly emerged workers have a similar membrane fatty acid composition to queens but within the first week of hive life, they increase the polyunsaturate content and decrease the monounsaturate content of their membranes, probably as a result of pollen consumption.
Longevity and membrane saturation | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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At the World's Healthiest Foods, we encourage consumption of many whole foods that contain large amounts of polyunsaturated fat, but we do not encourage consumption of high-polyunsaturate oils that have been processed from these exact same foods!
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They also didn’t control for polyunsaturate intake.
Meat and mortality | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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(Linoleic acid, a polyunsaturate in many vegetable oils that has come in and out of dieticians’ favor, was the original king.)
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(Linoleic acid, a polyunsaturate in many vegetable oils that has come in and out of dieticians’ favor, was the original king.)
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