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Dietary Fats

"Dietary Fats" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Fats present in food, especially in animal products such as meat, meat products, butter, ghee. They are present in lower amounts in nuts, seeds, and avocados.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Dietary Fats" by people in this website by year, and whether "Dietary Fats" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 86 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2007 and 2013 and 2017
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