Nutrition quiz: What do you know about fats?

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BY GWEN SCHOEN / McClatchy Newspapers

Good fats, bad fats, so-so fats. Do you know which is which? Here’s a quiz to test how up-to-date you are about the fat in your diet.

True or false:

1. Fats are necessary because they provide essential fatty acids to the body.

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Some fats are good for us, while others aren't (but they tend to be tasty). (Photos.com)

Some fats are good for us, while others aren't (but they tend to be tasty). (Photos.com)

2. Some vitamins cannot be absorbed by the body without fat.

3. All fats, good and bad, have about the same calories.

4. Monounsaturated fats are solid at room temperature.

5. Monounsaturated fats raise cholesterol just like saturated fat.

6. Sources of monounsaturated fats include olive, canola and peanut oils.

7. Polyunsaturated fats are solid at room temperature.

8. Polyunsaturated fats can lower cholesterol when they replace saturated fat in the diet.

9. Plants and fish are sources of polyunsaturated fats.

10. Saturated fats are solid at room temperature.

11 Saturated fats raise harmful LDL cholesterol and increase heart disease risk.

Source: Cooking Light magazine, April 2008

Answers:

1. True

2. True

3. True

4. False

5. False

6. True

7. False

8. True

9. True

10. True

11. True