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What makes an unsaturated fat different than a saturated fat?

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Unsaturated fats have at least one carbon-carbon double bond while saturated fats have only carbon-carbon single bonds. Put in another way, saturated fats are “saturated” with hydrogen atoms, while unsaturated fats do not have the maximum amount of hydrogen atoms a fatty acid can have, making them “unsaturated.”

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