Dietary Oils Fatty Acid
Why fats and oils are essential.
Dietary oils fatty acid. They provide essential fatty acids efa efa as their name defines are absolute essential nutrients required by the body. Efas are fats that the body needs but cannot make on its own. Omega 6 fatty acids are a type of essential fatty acid efa belonging to the same family as omega 3 fatty acids. Efas are linoleic acid and a linolenic acid α linolenic acid ala is known as omega 3 and linoleic acid is called as omega 6.
The human body requires dietary fats and oils in sufficient amounts to caary out basic etabolic functions. Consequently excessive consumption of both of these oils without adequate intake of long chain omega 3 fatty acids epa dha will derail an otherwise. Monounsaturated fatty acids mufa with one double bond. Saturated fatty acids sfa with no double bonds.
Fatty acids composition of vegetable oils and its contribution to dietary energy intake and dependence of cardiovascular mortality on dietary intake of fatty acids jana orsavova 1 ladislava misurcova 2 jarmila vavra ambrozova 2 robert vicha 3 and jiri mlcek 2 1 language centre faculty of humanities tomas bata university in zlín.