Fats are a Combination of Different Types of Fats

Learned something new about fat. I always thought that animal fat was pure saturated fat. Guess I had better go back to school! Actually all fats and oils are a combination of saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fat. The chart below shows the percentages of the three main types of fat

(data comes from here).

Percentage of Types of Fat in Oils and Fats (based on 1 oz. of fat and rounded)
	Saturated	Monounsaturated	Polyunsaturated
Animal
Beef Tallow	50	42	<1
Bacon Grease	39	45	11
Chicken Fat	30	45	21
Mutton Tallow	47	41	8
Duck Fat	33	49	13
Goose Fat	29	57	11
Turkey Fat	29	43	23
Butter	63	26	4
Plant/Seed Oils
Coconut Oil	86	6	2
Olive Oil	14	73	10
Canola Oil	8	61	26
Corn Oil	13	28	55
Soybean Oil	16	23	58

The amount of saturated fat in animal fat actually varies widely, with goose and turkey being the lowest. Most of the animal fats are actually higher in monounsaturated fat than they are saturated fat, butter being the main exception. Also, the type of fat that is highest in saturated fat actually doesn't come from an animal at all--but from a coconut!