Edible plant extract

The crossword clue for today is "Edible plant extract", below are the correct answer and description for our crossword answer :

PALM OIL

Palm oil and coconut oil are two of the vegetable oils that aren’t very good for our health. Both are high in saturated fat.

Saturated fats differ from unsaturated fats chemically in that saturated fats have chains of fatty acids that are relatively straight, allowing individual molecules to pack closely together. This close packing largely explains why saturated fats are solid at room temperature. Unsaturated fatty acids on the other hand have "kinks" in the chains of their fatty acids, so that they cannot pack together closely. Unsaturated fats are generally liquid at room temperature. Food manufacturers have learned that humans get sick by consuming saturated fats (i.e. fats from animal sources). So, they market "healthy" vegetable fats (naturally unsaturated and liquid at room temperature) that they have magically transformed in solid fats (like vegetable spreads). All they did was saturate the healthy fats, so that now they solidify at room temperature, and in our arteries. There should be a law ...

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