If a food product contained fatty acids and glycerol molecules but no triglycerides, could it be advertised as fat free? Explain how this advertisement could be misleading.

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anonymous · Answer

also i need help with understanding: Describe the structure of amino acids, including what makes amino acids different from each other.

anonymous · Answer

Describe the structures of proteins and nucleic acids, and then explain the relationship between these two molecules within a cell.

blues · Answer

One question at a time, please. About fats, when a triacylglycerides is digested, it is divided up into three single and independent glycerol molecules. Glycerol being essentially just a fatty acid with a head group on it.

Could these molecules enter the same metabolic pathways as the triacylglycerols?

anonymous · Answer

no.