SATURATED FATS (THE BIG 4 TYPES OF FAT IN FOOD)

SATURATED FATS:

Saturated fats tend to be solid and are found mainly in animal foods, such as butter, cream, fat on meat, chicken skin, cheese,dripping and coconut oil.
Palm oil, a vegetable oil used in food manufacture and for deep-frying, is also mainly saturated.
Bought foods, such as biscuits, cakes, pies, pastries and snack foods, also tend to be high in saturates.
Saturated fats tend to raise blood cholesterol (although the extent to which they do this varies) and they have been incrimintated in many illnesses.
They are the fats to avoid.
Concentrate on the mono and polyunsaturated fats.