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Fat's actual chemical name — three fatty acids holding hands with glycerol, hoarding your calories.
means A fat molecule made of three fatty acid chains attached to a glycerol backbone, and the main form in which the body stores energy and carries fat in the blood.
from Built from Greek 'tri-' (three) plus 'glycerides,' itself from 'glycerol' — the sweet-tasting alcohol backbone of fats, named from Greek 'glykys' meaning sweet. Chemists in the 19th century, working out the structure of fats, simply counted the parts: glycerol plus three fatty acids bonded on equals tri-glyceride, a literal inventory dressed up in Greek.
- storage form
- how your body banks unused calories as fat
- blood test
- high levels linked to heart disease risk
- dietary culprit
- sugar and alcohol spike it more than fat does
- structure
- glycerol backbone plus three fatty acid chains