NUTR 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Baked Potato, Hash Browns, French Fries
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Not about avoiding fat, but choosing the best ones for you (fish, avocado, nuts and seeds, oils, etc. ) French fries, onion rings, avocado, coconut, nuts and seeds. Baked potato plain (trace amounts of fat) Baked potato with butter (1 tbsp = 9g of fat) Baked potato with butter and sour cream (11g) Hash browns (~15-25g, depending on how much oil you use to prepare them) French fries (11-30g: potatoes are not necessarily high in fat; it all depends on what you put on them and how you prepare them. Most important form in food/nutrition: triglyceride (tg) Triglycerol backbone with 3 attached fatty acids. Linoleic acid: 18:2n-6 (only need to tell the reader where the first double bond is located: polyunsaturated fatty acid: alpha-linolenic acid: 18:3n-3. Nutritional recommendations for canadians: eating well with canada"s food guide (ewcfg) and. Eicosapentaenoic acid (epa) found primarily in oceanic fish, heart health. Docosahexaenoic (dha) lake fish, game (moose, elk), brain and eye (retinal) health.
