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Why fats and fat-soluble vitamins are absorbed through lacteal before transported to the blood circulatory system?

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There are blood capillaries and special lymph capillaries, called lacteals, in the center of each villus. The blood capillaries absorb most nutrients, but the fats and fat-soluble vitamins are absorbed by the lacteals.

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