Longevity Institute Newsletter13.1a
Data and Illustrations Related to Newsletter13
The Nine Most Frequent Saturated Fatty Acids
Occuring in Human and in Animal Biology.
| Numbers | Usual Names | Chemical Names |
| 4.0 | butyric acid | butanoic acid |
| 6.0 | caproic | hexanoic |
| 8.0 | caprylic | octanoic |
| 10.0 | capric | decenoic |
| 12.0 | lauric | dodecenoic |
| 14.0 | myristic | tetradecenoic |
| 16.0 | palmitic | hexadecenoic |
| 18.0 | stearic | octodecenoic |
| 20.0 | arachidic | eicosenoic |
Table 1 : The eight most frequent saturated fatty acids occurring in animal and human biology.
The first digit in the signs of column one indicates the number of carbon atoms of the fatty acid molecule. The second digit indicates
the number of double bonds between the carbon atoms of the molecule.