Total Fats

Fats are sources of essential fatty acids, an important dietary requirement. Fats play a vital role in maintaining healthy skin and hair, insulating body organs against shock, maintaining body temperature, and promoting healthy cell function. There are saturated and unsaturated fats. Eating a lot of saturated fat increases the level of bad cholesterol (low-density lipoproteins, or LDL) in the blood. Both saturated fat and trans fats can raise the levels of total cholesterol and bad cholesterol in the blood. And it is generally acknowledged that high levels of LDL place you at greater risk of heart disease. Unsaturated fats are of two kinds: monounsaturated fats (MUFA) and polyunsaturated fats (PUFA). MUFAs lower the level of bad cholesterol (LDL) in the blood and raise the good cholesterol (HDL). PUFAs, on the other hand, reduce both the good and the bad cholesterol. All the biscuit samples had fat percentages close to their declared values. Fat was highest in Dukes and Unibic (23.5 per cent each) and lowest in Anmol (15 per cent).