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cis fatty acid

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cis fatty acid
Nutrition A natural fatty acid, in which the carbon moieties lie on the same side of the double bond; natural fats and oils contain only cis double bonds–eg, oleic acid, a monounsaturated fatty acid with a cis configuration. See Fatty acid; Cf Trans fatty acid.
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The predominant unsaturated fatty acids, which come mostly from vegetable and fish oils in our dietary fats, are the cis fatty acids.
No adverse effects seen from transpolyunsaturated acids by Emerging Food R&D Report
1) The only difference was that ten percent of the calories came from one of three fats: * oleic acid, the monounsaturated cis fatty acid normally found in olive oil, * the trans version of oleic acid, or * a saturated fat.
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