Translations:Triglyceride/4/en

Chemical structure

 
Example of a natural mixed triglyceride with residues of three different fatty acids. The first fatty acid residue is saturated (blue highlighted), the second fatty acid residue contains one double bond within the carbon chain (green highlighted). The third fatty acid residue (a polyunsaturated fatty acid residue, highlighted in red) contains three double bonds within the carbon chain. All carbon-carbon double bonds shown are cis isomers.