Fatty acid chain length combinations in ascitic fluid triglycerides containing lymphatic absorbed medium-chain fatty acids.

Information on the fatty acid chain length combinations in lymph triglycerides containing medium-chain fatty acids was obtained by combining the fatty acid composition and the carbon number composition of triglycerides from ascitic fluid of patients on medium-chain triglyceride-containing diets. In these triglycerides, the major part of the medium-chain fatty acids was present in combination with long-chain fatty acids. These results indicate that part of the lymphatic absorbed medium-chain fatty acids are absorbed as triglycerides which also contain long-chain fatty acids.