All fats, including saturated fatty acids, have important roles in the body. However, the most important fats are those that the body cannot make and thus must come from the food we eat. These essential fatty acids (EFAs) are based on linoleic acid (omega-6 group) and alpha-linolenic acid (omega-3 group). We need both groups of essential fatty acids to survive. For various reasons EFA deficienc...

in order to investigate the effects of boron, zinc and sulfur on yield and fatty acid composition of rapeseed(hyola 401 cultivar), an experiment was conducted in rasht province in 2011. a field experiment withcompletely randomized block design was performed with eight treatments in three replications.maximum grain yield (4157.6 kg ha-1) and grain oil (1770.2 kg ha-1) was obtained from s+b+zntre...

I N A previous report from our laboratories the essential fatty acid requirement of infants was estimated from the polyunsaturated fatty acid composition of the total fatty acids of 1 The same data were used to derive estimation equations whereby the intake of linoleate was determined from polyunsaturated fatty acid analysis of serum. The development of the latter approach was made through anim...