What are the essential food factor????
Fats and oils are the most important lipids found in nature...They are one of the three major 'food factors' needed for human body,,the other two being proteins and carbohydrates...
How much energy taken from them?????
Fats and oils are widely distributed in foods and are of great nutritional values.they provide concentrated reserve of energy in human body for maintaining optimum body temperature...one gram of metabolized fat or oils contain 9 kcal.. while the corresponding value for carbohydrates and protein are 4 kcal and 5.5 kcal respectively...
Any other need of this in our day to day Life???
Not only the edible fats and oils occupy a place of pride in human diet but they also find use a raw material for manufacturer of soap and synthetic detergent,paints and burnishes and polishes..glycerol,lubricants......dying oils and cosmetics, printing inks,linoleum oils cloth and pharmaceutical....
Amazing things::
At the present time the human races uses an estimated 40 million tonnes a year of fats and oils which reflects both their nutritional and industrial importance....
This is very informative article..we will have to take care of our health by maintaining a regular balanced diet