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trans fat

type of unsaturated fat that occurs in small amounts in nature, but is also produced industrially from vegetable fats for use in foods
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Summary

trans fat is a structural class of chemical entities[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of structural class of chemical entities entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,439 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: unsaturated fat[3]
  • Part of: oil hydrogenation[4], shortening[5]
  • Commons category: Trans fatty acids[6]
  • Opposite of: cis fat[7]
  • Found in taxon: ruminants[8]

Why It Matters

trans fat has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 88 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Food Chemistry. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Food Chemistry. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ['a6IrF', '3nT1aw']
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → structural class of chemical entities
    Found in taxon → ruminants
    Opposite of → cis fat
    Part of → oil hydrogenation, shortening
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 23568, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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