Oleic acid provides an excellent moisturising seal on your skin but can be harmful to people who do not have a dry skin, says the expert. It restores moisture that has been lost due to ageing.

The carbons and oxygens of the carboxylic acid functional group are red. (B) This is the structure of oleic acid, an 18-carbon unsaturated fat. The carbons of the alkene functional group ...

such as steric acid and oleic acid, cannot replace them. These "essential" fatty acids are polyunsaturated — meaning they contain multiple carbon-carbon double bonds. Scientists have determined ...

Beef tallow is mostly saturated fat, but it also contains monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, sometimes referred to as ...

Seed oil composition and soybean cyst nematode resistance are among the soybean checkoff-funded research projects currently ...

A recent study by researchers at IRB Barcelona has identified a fatty acid found in palm oil, called palmitic acid, as a significant promoter of cancer metastasis in oral cancer and melanoma. Unlike ...