How does the percentage of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids in olive oil compare to that of canola oil?

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Welcome back everyone. A nutritionist is analyzing the fatty acid composition of different oils. How does the percentage of mono unsaturated and fully unsaturated fatty acids in corn oil compared to that of saff flower oil? So essentially, we're given the chart which gives us percent of unsaturated fatty acids in each sample. What we notice is that safflower oil essentially contains over 70%. We can state about 73% of poly unsaturated fatty acids because that's the gray bar. According to the legend, this gray bar represents poly unsaturated fatty acids. And now the orange bar represents mono unsaturated fatty acids. And we can see that the orange bar essentially represents about 18% of mono unsaturated fatty acids for corn oil. We have our gray bar. We can see that it's between 30 40% is slightly less than 35%. So we can say about 34% of poorly unsaturated fatty acids. And now the orange bar is slightly above 50%. So about 51% of mono unsaturated fatty acids. And now we want to essentially compare those right. So we can begin writing our conclusion as follows. Now, let's begin with corn oil. That would be our reference point. And we can say that it has a higher percentage of mono unsaturated fatty acids because we are looking at 51% against 18%. So it has a higher percentage of mono unsaturated that the assets. While sunflower oil and saints a higher percentage of poly unsaturated fatty acids, 73% against 34%. And that would be our final answer to this problem. Essentially, the statement compares the percentages of poly and mono unsaturated fatty acids in each oil. Thank you for watching.

How does the percentage of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids in olive oil compare to that of canola oil?

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