006 fat categories

categories of fats, saturated, unsaturated

Fats are categorised based on their physical chemistry
Unsaturated fats contained at least one double bond in the carbon chain whereas saturated fats have only single bonds.
Mono- has one double bond, poly-unsaturated has more than one double bond.
Omega-3 and omega-6 are named based on the placement of the first double bond.

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