Saturated Fat
macronutrientA type of fat with no double bonds in its fatty acid chains.
Definition
A type of fat with no double bonds in its fatty acid chains. Found mainly in animal products and tropical oils. Excessive intake is associated with higher LDL cholesterol. FDA DV is 20g/day.
ํฌํ ์ง๋ฐฉ(Saturated Fat)์ด๋?
ํฌํ ์ง๋ฐฉ์ ์ง๋ฐฉ์ฐ ์ฌ์ฌ์ ํ์ ์์ ์ฌ์ด์ ์ด์ค ๊ฒฐํฉ์ด ์๋ ์์ด ์ง๋ฐฉ์ผ๋ก, ํ์ ์ฌ์ฌ์ด ์์ ์์๋ก ์์ ํ "ํฌํ"๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ํน์ฑ ๋๋ฌธ์ ํฌํ ์ง๋ฐฉ์ ์์จ์์ ๊ณ ์ฒด ์ํ๋ฅผ ์ ์งํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ํ์ ์ธ ์๋ก ๋ฒํฐ, ๋ผ๋, ์ฝ์ฝ๋์ค์ผ, ์ ์์ก๊ณผ ์ ์ง๋ฐฉ ์ ์ ํ์ ํจ์ ๋ ์ง๋ฐฉ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค.
ํฌํ ์ง๋ฐฉ์ฐ์ ๋จ์(C4โC6)์์ ์ด์ฅ์(C20+)๊น์ง ์ฌ์ฌ ๊ธธ์ด๊ฐ ๋ค์ํฉ๋๋ค. ์์ด์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํํ ํฌํ ์ง๋ฐฉ์ฐ์ ํ๋ฏธํธ์ฐ(C16:0)๊ณผ ์คํ ์๋ฅด์ฐ(C18:0)์ ๋๋ค.
๊ฑด๊ฐ ๊ณ ๋ ค ์ฌํญ
ํนํ ํ๋ฏธํธ์ฐ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ์คํธ์ฐ์ด ๋ง์ ํฌํ ์ง๋ฐฉ์ ๊ณผ๋ค ์ญ์ทจํ๋ฉด LDL(์ ๋ฐ๋ ์ง๋จ๋ฐฑ) ์ฝ๋ ์คํ ๋กค ์์น๊ฐ ๋์์ง๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จ์ด ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ๋๋งฅ๊ฒฝํ์ ์ฌํ๊ด ์งํ์ ์๋ ค์ง ์ํ ์ธ์์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๊ทธ ๊ด๊ณ๋ ์๊ฐ๋ณด๋ค ๋ณต์กํฉ๋๋ค.
- ๋คํฌ ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฟ๊ณผ ์ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์ ํจ์ ๋ ์คํ ์๋ฅด์ฐ์ LDL์ ๋์ด์ง ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฒด๋ด์์ ์ฌ๋ ์ฐ์ผ๋ก ์ ํ๋ฉ๋๋ค
- ์ํ ๊ธฐ์ง(์: ์ ์ง๋ฐฉ ์ ์ ํ ๋ ๊ฐ๊ณต์ก)์ด ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ๊ฑด๊ฐ ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์นฉ๋๋ค
- ํฌํ ์ง๋ฐฉ์ ์ ์ ํ์ํ๋ฌผ๋ก ๋์ฒดํด๋ ์ฌํ๊ด ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ ๋์ง ์์ผ๋, ๋ถํฌํ ์ง๋ฐฉ์ผ๋ก ๋์ฒดํ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ ๋ฉ๋๋ค
๊ถ์ฅ ์ ํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ํ ๊ณต๊ธ์
์ฃผ์ ๋ณด๊ฑด ๊ธฐ๊ด๋ค์ ํฌํ ์ง๋ฐฉ์ ํ๋ฃจ ์ด ์นผ๋ก๋ฆฌ์ 10% ๋ฏธ๋ง์ผ๋ก ์ ํํ ๊ฒ์ ๊ถ๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค. 2,000 kcal ์์ด ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ํ๋ฃจ ์ฝ 22 g ์ดํ์ ํด๋นํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ์ฅ ํํ(AHA)๋ ์ฌํ๊ด ์ํ์ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ ์ฌ๋์๊ฒ 6% ๋ฏธ๋ง(์ฝ 13 g/์ผ)์ด๋ผ๋ ๋ ์๊ฒฉํ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ๊ถ์ฅํฉ๋๋ค.
- ๋ฒํฐ (1 ํฐ์ ): ์ฝ 7 g ํฌํ ์ง๋ฐฉ
- ๋ค์ง ์ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ 80/20 (์กฐ๋ฆฌ 100 g): ์ฝ 8 g ํฌํ ์ง๋ฐฉ
- ์ฝ์ฝ๋์ค์ผ (1 ํฐ์ ): ์ฝ 12 g ํฌํ ์ง๋ฐฉ
- ์ฒด๋ ์น์ฆ (28 g): ์ฝ 6 g ํฌํ ์ง๋ฐฉ
Top Food Sources
| # | Food | Amount per 100g | % DV |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fish oil, menhaden, fully hydrogenated | 95.6g | 478% |
| 2 | Oil, industrial, soy, fully hydrogenated | 94.0g | 470% |
| 3 | Oil, industrial, palm kernel (hydrogenated), confection fat, uses similar to 95 degree hard butter | 93.7g | 469% |
| 4 | Oil, industrial, cottonseed, fully hydrogenated | 93.6g | 468% |
| 5 | Oil, industrial, coconut (hydrogenated), used for whipped toppings and coffee whiteners | 93.5g | 468% |
| 6 | Oil, industrial, palm kernel (hydrogenated), confection fat, intermediate grade product | 92.6g | 463% |
| 7 | Shortening confectionery, coconut (hydrogenated) and or palm kernel (hydrogenated) | 91.3g | 456% |
| 8 | Oil, nutmeg butter | 90.0g | 450% |
| 9 | Oil, industrial, palm kernel (hydrogenated) , used for whipped toppings, non-dairy | 89.0g | 445% |
| 10 | Oil, industrial, palm kernel (hydrogenated), filling fat | 88.2g | 441% |
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Related Terms
Cholesterol
A waxy substance found in animal-based foods and produced by the liver.
Trans Fat
An unsaturated fat with a trans configuration.
Unsaturated Fat
A fat with one or more double bonds in its fatty acid chain.
CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid)
A naturally occurring trans fatty acid found in meat and dairy from ruminants, associated with potential body composition and immune benefits.
Hydrogenation
An industrial process adding hydrogen to unsaturated fats to make them more solid and stable.