What are simple fats?

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Simple fats are those existing as single molecules. Of these, fatty acids are the simplest. Fatty acids are to fats as sugars are to carbohydrates—one of the simplest forms of the chemical class. Fatty acids are chains of carbon, with a minimum length of 2. Some fatty acids in nature can reach up to 60 carbons. At one end is a carboxylic acid group made up of a carbon and two oxygens, thus the term fatty acid.

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