Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An unsaturated compound.
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- noun organic chemistry Any
unsaturated compound, but especially an unsaturatedhydrocarbon in theoil refining industry
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I wonder how much of the fat is saturated versus unsaturate dless to worry about.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Sarah Klein 2012
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I wonder how much of the fat is saturated versus unsaturate dless to worry about.
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(cocoa butter) is immediately converted in your body to a mono-unsaturate, so it behaves more like olive oil.
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