It is interesting to note that natural oils and fats have saturated:monounsaturated:polyunsaturated fatty acid ratios which vary tremendously from one extreme to another as shown in Table 1. When keeping the monounsaturation level at 1.0, highly unsaturated oils are tilted towards the polyunsaturated, while highly saturated oils such as coconut and palm kernel oils are tilted towards the saturated end. Palm and palm oil products have ratios close towards 1:1:0.3, while olive oils have 0.1:1:0.1.

Main Researcher: Dr Siew Wai Lin
Email: siew@mpob.gov.my