polyunsaturated fat

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   a class of fats having long carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated with hydrogen atoms; used in some margarines; supposedly associated with low blood cholesterol

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Questions about polyunsaturated fat

What does polyunsaturated fat mean?

polyunsaturated fat means "a class of fats having long carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated with hydrogen atoms; used in some margarines; supposedly associated with low blood cholesterol".

Is polyunsaturated fat a common word?

polyunsaturated fat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.