What is the link between saturated and unsaturated fats?
Fats are made from fatty acids, chains of carbon and hydrogen molecules. This is the case for saturated and unsaturated fats. There is only one difference between them: I’m not sure if you have a basic knowledge of chemistry or not so I may be insulting your intelligence when I tell you that carbon can bond to up to 4 atoms, it can also bond to 3 but then must have a double bond in order to compensate. A saturated fat will have NO carbon-carbon double bonds, i.e, it is completely saturated with hydrogen molecules. An unsaturated fat will contain at least one carbon-carbon double bond. Unsaturated fats are liquid at room temperature, saturated fats are solid. So the actual similarities are that they are both made from carbon and hydrogen with a carboxylic acid (COOH) group at the end of the chain.
