total fat
All dietary grease
Total fat is a nutritional measurement representing all fats in a food item—saturated, unsaturated, and trans fats combined.
It appears on nutrition labels as grams per serving: The yogurt has only 2 grams of total fat.
The figure helps people track dietary fat intake without distinguishing between fat types.
- saturatedThoroughly soaked through
- caloriesMeasures of food energy
- empty caloriesEnergy lacking nutrients
- nutritionBodily use of food
- labelIdentifying attachment or marker
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specificity of fat measurement
total fatsaturated fat
Fully hydrogenated dietary lipid
trans fat · unsaturated fat · monounsaturated fat · polyunsaturated fat · cholesterol
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