What are trans fats and are they evil?
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Unanticipated Impacts of Double Bonds
When we hydroginate or make the oil to where it could be solid room temperature, when we do that, start messing with those bonds and stuff. For some reason, those can change to being the Z-S shape of trans. And what we call it trans, they say trans fat. What's like the, is there? It's a trans double bond. But if a fat contains trans double bonds, they are called trans fats in the vernacular,. Like in everyday life.
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