Longevity Institute Newsletter13.1b
Data and Illustrations Related to Newsletter13
The Four Most Frequent Monounsaturated Fatty Acids
Occuring in Human and in Animal
Biology.
| Numbers | Usual Names | Chemical Names |
| 16.1 | palmitoleic acid | tetracosanoic |
| 18.1 | oleic | octodecenoic |
| 20.1 | gadoleic | eicosenoic |
| 22.1 | erucic | docosenoic |
Table 2: The four most common monounsaturated 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.