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Definition of lipid is “a wide variety of natural products including fatty acids and their derivatives, steroids, terpenes, carotenoids and bile acids, which have in common a ready solubility in organic solvents such as diethyl ether, hexane, benzene, chloroform or methanol.” (Christie, 1982 in O’Keefe, 2002). The terms fats and oils are used interchangeably, and […]