Question
Why are vegetable oils healthy as compared to vegetable ghee? How are vegetable oils converted into vegetable ghee? Name the process.
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Answer
- Vegetable oils contain unsaturated fatty acids while vegetable ghee contains saturated fatty acids which are said to be harmful for health.
- Vegetable oils are converted into vegetable ghee by adding hydrogen in the presence of catalysts palladium(Pd) or nickel(Ni).
- The process involved in this is addition reaction (hydrogenation). It is defined as the addition of hydrogen atoms in carbon atoms of an organic compound.
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