Biological and Nutritional Properties of Palm Oil and Palmitic Acid: Effects on Health

A growing body of evidence highlights the close association between nutrition and human health. Fat is an essential macronutrient, and vegetable oils, such as palm oil, are widely used in the food industry and highly represented in the human diet. Palmitic acid, a saturated fatty acid, is the princi...

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Autores principales: Mancini, Annamaria, Imperlini, Esther, Nigro, Ersilia, Montagnese, Concetta, Daniele, Aurora, Orrù, Stefania, Buono, Pasqualina
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Publicado: MDPI 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6331788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26393565
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules200917339
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Imperlini, Esther
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Daniele, Aurora
Orrù, Stefania
Buono, Pasqualina
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description A growing body of evidence highlights the close association between nutrition and human health. Fat is an essential macronutrient, and vegetable oils, such as palm oil, are widely used in the food industry and highly represented in the human diet. Palmitic acid, a saturated fatty acid, is the principal constituent of refined palm oil. In the last few decades, controversial studies have reported potential unhealthy effects of palm oil due to the high palmitic acid content. In this review we provide a concise and comprehensive update on the functional role of palm oil and palmitic acid in the development of obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases and cancer. The atherogenic potential of palmitic acid and its stereospecific position in triacylglycerols are also discussed.
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spelling pubmed-63317882019-01-24 Biological and Nutritional Properties of Palm Oil and Palmitic Acid: Effects on Health Mancini, Annamaria Imperlini, Esther Nigro, Ersilia Montagnese, Concetta Daniele, Aurora Orrù, Stefania Buono, Pasqualina Molecules Review A growing body of evidence highlights the close association between nutrition and human health. Fat is an essential macronutrient, and vegetable oils, such as palm oil, are widely used in the food industry and highly represented in the human diet. Palmitic acid, a saturated fatty acid, is the principal constituent of refined palm oil. In the last few decades, controversial studies have reported potential unhealthy effects of palm oil due to the high palmitic acid content. In this review we provide a concise and comprehensive update on the functional role of palm oil and palmitic acid in the development of obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases and cancer. The atherogenic potential of palmitic acid and its stereospecific position in triacylglycerols are also discussed. MDPI 2015-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6331788/ /pubmed/26393565 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules200917339 Text en © 2015 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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